Kanzi and Great Ape Trust’s bonobo research featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show

Des Moines, Iowa – October 5, 2010 – The world’s most famous bonobo was featured on the world’s most famous talk show - The Oprah Winfrey Show. A segment about Kanzi and the bonobo language program at Great Ape Trust aired Monday, October 4.  The program was entitled, Ultimate Amazing Animals: The Ape Who Has Conversations With Humans and included a report by Lisa Ling, a special correspondent for The Oprah Winfrey Show.  Ling visited the scientific research facility in southeast Des Moines in August and met the bonobos Kanzi, Panbanisha and baby Teco.  For the segment, Ling interviewed Great Ape Trust scientist Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh – the first researcher to conduct language research with bonobos.

The Oprah Winfrey Show is yet another significant media event for Great Ape Trust.  Over the past two months, the Trust has been featured in TIME magazine, USA Today, CNN and PBS. In addition, the September literary release of Ape House, by bestselling novelist Sara Gruen, has brought attention to the bonobos and the language research program throughout North America.

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