William M. Fields

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1948 –

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Who is William M. Fields?

William M. Fields, also known by the lexigram, is an American qualitative investigator studying language, culture, and tools in non-human primates. He is best known for his collaboration with Sue Savage-Rumbaugh beginning in 1997 at the Language Research Center of Georgia State University. There he co-reared Nyota, a baby bonobo, with Panbanisha, Kanzi and Savage-Rumbaugh . Fields and Savage-Rumbaugh are the only scientists in the world carrying out language research with bonobos.

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1948
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on July 23, 2013

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