Ai (chimpanzee)

Ai
Specieschimpanzee
Bornc. 1976 (age 48–49)
Guinean Forests of West Africa
OffspringAyumu (chimpanzee)

Ai (born in 1976, estimated) is a female western chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes verus), currently living at the Primate Research Institute of Kyoto University (acronym KUPRI). She is the first subject of the Ai project, a research program started in 1978 by Kiyoko Murofushi and Tetsuro Matsuzawa aimed at understanding chimpanzee cognition through computer interface experiments.

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