About me:

This site is up to allow friends and enthusiasts to peek into the birth of an amazing communication initiative with intelligent animal life. As the final touches roll out, our non-profit site will be available.

Connecting Us/them:

Co-Founder and legendary musician Peter Gabriel pioneered the idea of internet tools for intelligent animals over 7 years ago. His vision now unites technology, scientific respect, and amazing animal sanctuaries for a new frontier of communication.

After many years of brainstorming, this group unites to provide human "tools" to animal friends...these tools are in fact interactive media 'kits'. The hope is to give primates, dolphins, and elephants an opportunity to engage in 'chatting' with other species via net...or even to chat with their own species from another location. Co-Founder Dr. Sue Savage Rumbaugh has been online for sometime with her beloved bonobos. Through lexigrams, touch screens and phone lines, Kanzi and Panbanisha have talked to Savage-Rumbaugh for years....they also would call up their family members in other buildings too!

Now, we are able to integrate the existing aptitude learned in captivity (ex: Kanzi and Panbanisha) with the undiscovered frontier (animal species encountering the tools for the first time). The 'how' and with what "language" remains open and to be observed and recorded.

Initially, an original design media platform will give each species choices.

Take primates for example, primates in sanctuaries can use touch screens to select images and symbols while watching a screen of their 'friends' responding. Or, the primates can choose to vocalize to communicate, like the bonobos often do across enclosures. Finally, the primates can touch another image to choose friends of other species and vice-versa(elephants or dolphins, and human friends). Eventually, there will be multimedia choices available for viewing/listening choices. That choice would allow the primate to observe, learn and communicate with other engaged participants. The choice to engage is theirs.....creating the opportunity to engage is the human element.

The goal of this non-profit is to bring much deserved respect and attention to those animals who communicate in highly intelligent circles. It is often thought that the human is the species with the bigger better tools....why not let our animal friends use them to let us understand. With that goal in mind, we hope to learn from them, listen to them, and act for their welfare.

They are talking....We are listening.

Dolphin Communication

One the focuses this time, as a more inclusive group, is to examine the highly evolved network of Dolphin Communication....in bringing this exciting piece to greater audiences, the plight of the dolphins will be of paramount concern. Diana Reiss, PhD, offers us a chance to take a better look at dolphin intelligence so that we can listen up and do more to help.

"We are in communication with an animal nation"

www.theoceanproject.org/actfordolphins

That's our good looking dolphin buddy

SILVER

Bonobo Interactive Lexigram

See if you can find Kanzi's and Panbanisha's favorite...JELLO