Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Bonnie (born about 1978) is a female orangutan living at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.She began spontaneously whistling, mimicking an animal caretaker making the sound. The importance is that whistling is a sound that is in a human’s—but not an orangutan’s—repertoire. While some "lower primates" have been shown to make non-standard sounds for their species, it has always been the result of intense training, whereas Bonnie just picked up the new sound mechanism.. }
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- Bonnie_(orangutan) comment "Bonnie (born about 1978) is a female orangutan living at the National Zoo in Washington D.C.She began spontaneously whistling, mimicking an animal caretaker making the sound. The importance is that whistling is a sound that is in a human’s—but not an orangutan’s—repertoire. While some "lower primates" have been shown to make non-standard sounds for their species, it has always been the result of intense training, whereas Bonnie just picked up the new sound mechanism.".