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Journal Article
The Founding of the Primate Station, Tenerife, Canary Islands
1994
Overview
The Primate Station on Tenerife in the Canary Islands is known for Wolfgang Köhler's experiments (1914-20) on the intelligent behavior of anthropoid apes. The Station was founded in 1912 by Max Rothmann, neurophysiologist at the University of Berlin, and sponsored by the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. The present article describes the circumstances and sudden appointment of Eugen Teuber as director. In addition to setting up the Station in 1913, Teuber observed the \"affective calls\" of chimpanzees; their \"gestural language\" led him to conclude that one might communicate with them by means of gestural signs like those used by deaf-mutes. His findings are compared with discoveries made 50 years later. Photographs taken by Teuber illustrate his tenure. He left a well-functioning Station to Wolfgang Köhler whose first intelligence experiment of December 31, 1913, he recorded.
