Animal Behavior

A sign language scholar's romance is disrupted by a chimp. The beautiful biologist Alex Brisco develops a new method to communicate with chimpanzees: instead of machines she uses a simple sign language. Her research and competition with ignorant colleagues lets her overlook the amorous approaches of cellist Mark. She accepts his help, but no more, because she believes he's married. —Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>