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All the Great Apes have been taught sign language. It's rarer in monkeys but has been done. Quite what it means is an ongoing debate (Noam Chomsky is sceptical but he might just be angry they named a signing chimp, Nim Chimpsky). For example, they don't ask questions. However, Alex the talking parrot can, so perhaps we are talking to the wrong species.
Jesus, all of them know sign language??? I didn't vote for that
All of them - once you teach one they secretly pass it on to others until they are all communicating behind our backs. I think there's a documentary about how this can't possibly go wrong and bite us in the arse - Compliance of the Apes or something.