Japan's "genius" chimpanzee Ai has died at 49

Ai, a chimpanzee who spent nearly five decades at Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute demonstrating that the gap between human and ape cognition is narrower than we like to think, died January 9 of multiple organ failure. She was 49, reports the BBC. — Read the rest

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