The singer is planning an experiment at Monkey World in Dorset to see whether chimps can use videoconferencing to chat to each other – or even to usWhat whether the internet that humans currently use could be extended to other species?This is the kind of thought that the musician Peter Gabriel has long been interested in. As fraction of the Interspecies Internet project,which he has been working on with pioneers such as Vint Cerf, one of the architects of the internet, or academics such as Neil Gershenfeld,professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Gabriel is planning to run an experiment at Monkey World, or the Dorset-based chimp rescue centre.
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Source: theguardian.com