“Cold bad, Gorilla hate,” Koko tells me, as I stand outside her house. But 37 Koko was interested in me, and told me “Visitor good”, it is her conversations with Dr Penny Patterson, 53, that are
38 .
Patterson was a psychology student when Koko was born in San Francisco zoo in 1971. Language
39 had been made using chimpanzees before, but 40
with a gorilla. “At first my expectation was I’d 41
with Koko for four years,” she says. “But after a few evenings together, I couldn’t put her down , I ended up staying with her 42
she’d fall asleep .
When she began 43 Koko the sign language that deaf-mute people 44 ,forcing the little fingers of the one-year-old gorilla into the 45 positions for “drink”, “eat”, “more” and rewarding her with 46 , she had no idea how quickly Koko would 47 .
Now Koko is so good at sign language that if she doesn’t know a word, she 48
one. For example, she didn’t know the word
49 “ring”, so she joined the signs for “finger” and “bracelet” to express it .
What has been unrecognized by science is that gorillas also have complex emotions---Koko was seen in an upset state when she heard her carers 50
the events of September 11. When Patterson asked her what she would
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