Sue Savage-Rumbaugh

SUE SAVAGE-RUMBAUGH is an American psychologist and primatologist who spent more than four decades studying language and cognition in great apes, especially bonobos and chimpanzees. She is the author of Kanzi: The Ape at the Brink of the Human Mind.

Savage-Rumbaugh received her PhD in psychology from the University of Oklahoma in 1975 and held positions at the University of Oklahoma, the Yerkes Center, Georgia State University’s Language Research Center, and the Great Ape Trust in Des Moines, Iowa. She received honorary degrees from the University of Chicago and Missouri State University and was named to Time’s 100 most influential people in 2011.

Sue Savage-Rumbaugh’s books are published by Trade Paper Press, an imprint of Turner Publishing.

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