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Miles and Orangutan on ABC

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — The story of a University of Tennessee-Chattanooga researcher and the orangutan she taught to use sign language is set to air at 8 p.m. Saturday on the ABC network program “That’s Incredible.”  Dr. Lyn Miles, a UT-Chattanooga anthropology professor, raised Chantek the orangutan in a house trailer from 1978 to 1986 and