* The university was home to the signing chimpanzee Washoe from 1980 until her death in October 2007 ; from 1993 at the university's Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute.

R. Allen and Beatrix Gardner made a similar earlier study, called Project Washoe, in which another chimpanzee was raised like a human child.

Washoe ( c. September 1965 Ellensburg – October 30, 2007 ) was a female chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition.

Washoe ( chimpanzee ) | Washoe, a female Common Chimpanzee | chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language, as part of a animal research | research experiment on animal language acquisition.

Gardner's brother, R. Allen Gardner, is a professor of comparative psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno and is famous for teaming with his wife on Project Washoe, the attempt to teach American Sign Language to a chimpanzee named Washoe.

This point of view has been strongly argued by Irene Pepperberg in relation to her studies of parrots ( Alex ), and by Allen and Beatrix Gardner in their study of the chimpanzee Washoe.

* Washoe ( chimpanzee )

* 1970 – Allan and Beatrix Gardner teach American Sign Language to the chimpanzee Washoe

* Washoe ( chimpanzee )

* Washoe ( chimpanzee )

The late Washoe, a 42-year-old female chimpanzee, was the first of the signing apes and one of the most famous.

* Washoe ( chimpanzee )

In other experiments, other chimpanzees have been taught American Sign Language, notably Washoe ( chimpanzee )

Washoe ( chimpanzee )

The land comprising the modern state was inhabited by Native Americans of the Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe tribes prior to European contact.

Washoe County was created in 1861 as one of the original nine counties of the Nevada Territory.

Washoe City was the first county seat in 1861 and was replaced by Reno in 1871.

In 2010, there was a ballot question asking whether the Reno city government and the Washoe County government should become one combined governmental body.

The area around Lake Tahoe was originally inhabited by the Washoe tribe of Native Americans.

Lake Tahoe was the center and heart of Washoe Indian territory, including the upper valleys of the Walker, Carson and Truckee Rivers.

Washoe was given affection and participated in everyday social activity with her adoptive family.

Washoe lived 24 hours a day with her human family from birth ; Nim at 2 weeks old was raised by a family in a home environment by human surrogate parents to see if he could refute Noam Chomsky's thesis that language is inherent only in humans.

Project Nim was an attempt to go further than Project Washoe.

Terrace, however, was skeptical of Project Washoe and, according to the critics, went to great lengths to discredit it.

Roger Fouts, of the Washoe Project, also claims that Project Nim was poorly conducted because it did not use strong enough methodology to avoid such comparisons and efficiently defend against them.

Fouts later reported, however, that a community of ASL-speaking chimpanzees ( including Washoe herself ) was spontaneously using this language as a part of their internal communication system.

In 1994, a Washoe County elementary school was named in Winnemucca's honor.

Mills Bee Lane III ( born November 12, 1936 ) is a retired boxing referee, a former boxer, was a two-term Washoe County District Court Judge, and television personality.

She is well known for her comparative studies into the cognitive fundamentals of language and communication, and was one of the first to try to extend work on language learning in animals other than humans ( exemplified by the Washoe project ) to a bird species.

* Before it was made a Territory, Nevada was popularly known as Washoe

Washoe was born in West Africa in 1965.

Washoe was named for Washoe County, Nevada, where she was raised and taught to use ASL.

Washoe and her mates were able to combine the hundreds of signs that they learned into novel combinations ( that they had never been taught, but rather created themselves ) with different meanings.

Washoe also taught other Chimpanzees some ASL without any help from humans.

* Washoe Zephyr, a regional wind referenced by Mark Twain.

The soils of the Cotati area are characterized by recent alluvial materials, explicitly those areas bordering the Laguna de Santa Rosa and its tributary Washoe Creek.

The other major industries are a Union Pacific switching station in Gerlach and public services of Washoe County, which includes its roads department and a K – 12 public school owned by the Washoe County School District ; the future of the Gerlach K – 12 School is unknown, as it is estimated that after the gypsum plant closes only around a dozen children will remain in Gerlach.

The region is served by the Washoe County School District.

The Verdi area is served by the Washoe County School District.

They established small Indian colonies, where they were joined by many Shoshone and, in the Reno area, Washoe people.

After the first couple of years of the language project, the Gardners and Roger Fouts discovered that Washoe could pick up ASL gestures without operant conditioning methods by observing humans around her that were signing amongst themselves.

At the time of observation, Washoe showed no signs of having learned the sign, but on a later occasion she reacted to the sight of a toothbrush by spontaneously producing the correct sign, thereby showing that she had in fact previously learned the ASL sign.

Work with Washoe and other signing primates motivated the foundation of the Great Ape Project, which hopes to " include the non-human great apes < nowiki > orangutans, and gorillas </ nowiki > within the community of equals by granting them the basic moral and legal protections that only humans currently enjoy ", in order to place them in the moral category of " persons " rather than private property.

( In this section double quotes are signed by Washoe, single by someone else.

In the United States, pine nuts are mainly harvested by Native Americans, particularly the Uto-Aztecan: Shoshone, Paiute and Hopi, and Washoe tribes.

Prior to contact with Europeans, the territory of the Washoe people was roughly bounded by the southern shore of Honey Lake in the north, the west fork of the Walker River in the south, the Sierra Nevada crest in the west, and the first range east of the Sierra Nevada in the east.

The Washo language ( Washo: wá: šiw ʔítlu ) ( also Washoe ) is an endangered Native American language isolate spoken by the Washo on the California – Nevada border in the drainages of the Truckee and Carson Rivers, especially around Lake Tahoe.

The Comstock eventually developed the Washoe process of using steam-heated iron pans, which reduced the days required by the patio process to hours.