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Housing Units (2000): 143908
Land area (2000): 6342.271809 sq. miles (16426.407878 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 209.047353 sq. miles (541.430135 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 6551.319162 sq. miles (16967.838013 sq. km)
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 39.704166 N, 119.763634 W
Headwords:
Washoe, NV
Washoe County
Washoe County, NV
Wikipedia
Washoe or Washo could refer to Washoe people, an indigenous peoples of the Great Basin.
Washoe (c. September 1965 – October 30, 2007) was a female common chimpanzee who was the first non-human to learn to communicate using American Sign Language;as part of a research experiment on animal language acquisition.
Washoe learned approximately 350 signs of ASL. She also taught her adopted son Loulis some signs.
Usage examples of "washoe".
There is by now a vast library of described and filmed conversations, employing Ameslan and other gestural languages, with Washoe, Lucy, Lana and other chimpanzees studied by the Gardners and others.
Shall I tell you that the good Wolf-god, who always had the welfare of the Washoe close to his heart, asked that we make this sacrifice to him?
English and other languages, but which Washoe invented for the occasion.
Having acquired this marvelous method of communication, Washoe may have been surprised that the cat was not also competent in Ameslan.
Just as Washoe and Lucy can be said to speak, Lana can be said to write.
But later observations showed that Washoe and other chimpanzees were perfectly able both to ask questions and to deny assertions put to them.
The Washoe tribe is going to get twelve acres on Lake Tahoe at Skunk Harbor.
The Washoe tribe had summered at Tahoe for ten thousand years, until the previous century, when logging and silver mining interests took it over.
Sandy in Washington, setting up a Tahoe land trust for the Washoe tribe.
Clumps of cottonwoods speckled Washoe Valley, leading to mountains and more mountains.
Gonzales was wanted in Washoe County, Nevada, for aggravated assault, assault on a federal officer and grand theft auto.
The sheriff of Washoe County liked Lawrence though he was a wanted felon.
And yet the first complaint a Washoe visitor to San Francisco makes, is that the sea winds blow so, there!
He soared over three fences like a bird, and disappeared down the road toward the Washoe Valley.
The mountains are very high and steep about Carson, Eagle and Washoe Valleys--very high and very steep, and so when the snow gets to melting off fast in the Spring and the warm surface-earth begins to moisten and soften, the disastrous land-slides commence.