Washoe had lived at Central Washington University since 1980 ; on October 30, 2007, officials from the Chimpanzee and Human Communication Institute on the CWU campus announced that she had died at the age of 42.

Washoe people have lived in the Great Basin for at least the last 6000 years.

Washoe had her own 8 x 24 foot trailer complete with living and cooking areas.

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

Hearst hurried over to the Washoe dstrict of western Utah territore, where he arranged to buy a one-sixth interest in the Ophir Mine there, near present day Virginia City.

Today, those surrounding towns are almost completely gone, with only a few houses and a quilt shop marking Washoe, currently the largest of them.

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

Sebeok also made pointed comparisons of Washoe with Clever Hans.

Terrace's skeptical approach to the claims that chimpanzees could learn and understand sign language led to heated disputes with Allen and Beatrix Gardner, who initiated the Washoe Project.

Relations with the Washoe people, who were culturally and linguistically very different, were not so peaceful.

While with Washoe, the Gardners and Fouts were careful to only communicate in ASL with Washoe, rather than using vocal communication, on the assumption that this would create a less confusing learning environment for Washoe.

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 greeted Kat < nowiki > caretaker </ nowiki > in just this way when she finally returned to work with the chimps.

Washoe also enjoyed playing pretend with her dolls, which she would bathe and talk to and would act out imaginary scenarios.

When new students came to work with Washoe, she would slow down her rate of signing for novice speakers of sign language, which had a humbling effect on many of them.

Some believe that the fact that Washoe not only communicated, but also formed close and personal relationships with humans indicates that she is emotionally sensitive and is deserving of moral status.

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.

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.

Enculturated apes Kanzi, Washoe, Sarah and a few others who underwent extensive language training programs ( with the use of gestures and other visual forms of communications ) successfully learned to answer quite complex questions and requests ( including question words " who " what ", " where "), although so far they failed to learn how to ask questions themselves.

So when two botanists from California found a distinct tree in western Nevada in 1948 with some marked differences from the Ponderosa Pine they were familiar with in California, they described it as a new species, Washoe Pine, Pinus washoensis.

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 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.

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.

Washoe was raised in an environment as close as possible to that of a human child, in an attempt to satisfy her psychological need for companionship.

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.

Kat made her apologies to Washoe, then decided to tell her the truth, signing " MY BABY DIED.

" Washoe stared at her, then looked down.

) Kat later remarked that that one sign told her more about Washoe and her mental capabilities than all her longer, grammatically perfect sentences.

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.

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

Washoe is the first non-human primate to learn some rudimentary forms of ASL, a true human language.

The Washoe language is tentatively regarded as part of the Hokan language family ; however, it is also considered to be a language isolate.

* The Virginia Street Bridge in Reno, Nevada, known for being the place where newly-divorced women coming from the Washoe County Courthouse would toss their wedding rings into the Truckee River.

However, the results, according to Fouts, were not as impressive as had been reported from the Washoe project.

This moved Burning Man from Pershing county / federal BLM land into the jurisdiction of Washoe County, which brought a protracted list of permit requirements.

features members of a fictitious, inept Reno Sheriff's Department, distinct from the actual Reno Police Department and Washoe County Sheriff's Office, both of which are absent in the show.

* USS Washoe County ( LST-1165 ), a United States Navy landing ship tank in commission from 1953 to 1971.

The name " Washoe " is derived from the autonym waashiw ( wa · šiw ) meaning " people from here " in the Washo language ( transliterated in older literature as Wa She Shu ).

The Washoe were confined to the area south of Carson City, and they were deprived from owning horses.

Washoe resistance to incursions on their lands proved futile, and the last armed conflict with the Washoes and non-Indians was the " Potato War " of 1857, when starving Washoes were killed for gathering potatoes from a European-American farm near Honey Lake in California.

Rails were extended North across the Washoe valley, from Carson City to Reno, where it connects with the Central Pacific.

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

Category: People from Washoe County, Nevada

Dr. McQueen served on the Washoe County School District Board of Trustees from 1969 – 1990, during which the district built several new schools, including Reed and McQueen.

Patrik Wiren went on to form the band Alpha Safari ( formerly named Washoe ) with some former live members from Misery Loves Co.

Born Frederic Joseph DeLonchant in Reno, Nevada on January 2, 1882, he was raised in Washoe County, graduating from Reno High School in 1900, then the University of Nevada in 1904 with a degree in mining engineering.