Can non-human primates communicate with us?  There seems little doubt that they can.  There have been many studies with gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees and bonobos that have shown us that there is a definite propensity to communicate.  Does this mean that they can acquire human language?  That is the question of the hour.  This is the crux of an ongoing controversy.  Psychologists, linguists, and animal behaviourists as well as others have expressed anywhere from agreement, to disbelief, to outrage!  After all, man is the only animal intelligent enough to have language!  Or are we?