Top 10 Headlines Today: Fish Use Sign Language, Flu Outbreak Mapped…
The top 10 stories on our radar today. Tell @NatGeo what you’re reading with #NatGeoDaily Reef Fish Uses Sign Language “The roving coralgrouper, a predator fish of the tropical reef, uses sign...
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Elephants Communicate in Sophisticated Sign Language, Researchers Say
Photo courtesy of ElephantVoices Elephants may use a variety of subtle movements and gestures to communicate with one another, according to researchers who have studied the big mammals in the wild...
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Fish Uses Sign Language With Other Species
The coral grouper is an agile hunter, quick to chase and attack prey in the open water. And when its prey dives into cracks and crevasses within a coral reef, the grouper uses its own version of sign...
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Ingenuity in Cross-Cultural Communication
KEP and PHNOM PENH—It never ceases to amaze me how ingenious many Cambodians are when confronted with a deaf tourist. The first time I traveled alone in Cambodia, I quickly learned to point to my ears...
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Tracking the Origins of Cambodian Sign Language
Mist-covered Bokor Mountain in Kampot Province, one of the last Khmer Rouge strongholds, held until the 1990s. PHNOM PENH – In a dim room at the Deaf Community Center in Phnom Penh, I watch as...
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Creating a Language by Committee
PHNOM PENH – On the white board, nine words in Khmer are listed in blue. In the cool, dim room, members of the Cambodian Sign Language committee are seated at an oval conference table scattered with...
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Searching for Deaf People
PHNOM PENH — In the bluish early morning light, we gathered by the gate of Deaf Development Programme (DDP) with our provisions of fully-charged smartphones, water, face masks, cameras and scarves...
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My Name Is…
KAMPOT, Cambodia– With the faded blue wooden shutters thrown open, I sat at the desk in my sunlit, whitewashed room in a French colonial building on a quiet side street, scrolling through photographs...
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Counting Chickens and Pigs
Kampong Thuch, CAMBODIA— After observing the first day of school for deaf adults in Kampot, I joined the Deaf Development Programme (DDP) outreach team as they went into the field. These visits had a...
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Devastation on the Roads of Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia–During a respite from agonizing about how to pack for a ten-day trip to Laos that included a meeting with representatives from the Laotian Association of the Deaf, a three-day...
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Structural Violence and the Vulnerable In Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—My first brush with the medical system in Cambodia was in late November when a close friend had to suddenly leave a luncheon she was hosting at her house to interpret for someone...
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Deaf-Hearing Marriages in Cambodia
KAMPONG CHAM, Cambodia – It all began with a funny story followed by an innocent question. A few weeks ago, I visited my friend, Srey. It was the first time I had been inside her home. She was giving...
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The Lost Deaf Men (and Women) of Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—The men (and occasionally, a woman) show up at the entrance of Deaf Development Programme, standing uncertainly by the corrugated steel gate, downcast eyes on their feet, as the...
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Tracking the Origins of Cambodian Sign Language
Mist-covered Bokor Mountain in Kampot Province, one of the last Khmer Rouge strongholds, held until the 1990s. PHNOM PENH – In a dim room at the Deaf Community Center in Phnom Penh, I watch as...
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Creating a Language by Committee
PHNOM PENH – On the white board, nine words in Khmer are listed in blue. In the cool, dim room, members of the Cambodian Sign Language committee are seated at an oval conference table scattered with...
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Searching for Deaf People
PHNOM PENH — In the bluish early morning light, we gathered by the gate of Deaf Development Programme (DDP) with our provisions of fully-charged smartphones, water, face masks, cameras and scarves...
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My Name Is…
KAMPOT, Cambodia– With the faded blue wooden shutters thrown open, I sat at the desk in my sunlit, whitewashed room in a French colonial building on a quiet side street, scrolling through photographs...
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Counting Chickens and Pigs
Kampong Thuch, CAMBODIA— After observing the first day of school for deaf adults in Kampot, I joined the Deaf Development Programme (DDP) outreach team as they went into the field. These visits had a...
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Devastation on the Roads of Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia–During a respite from agonizing about how to pack for a ten-day trip to Laos that included a meeting with representatives from the Laotian Association of the Deaf, a three-day...
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Structural Violence and the Vulnerable In Cambodia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—My first brush with the medical system in Cambodia was in late November when a close friend had to suddenly leave a luncheon she was hosting at her house to interpret for someone...
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