![]() ![]() She was born July 4, 1971, at the San Francisco Zoo.įrancine (Penny) Patterson, co-founder of the Gorilla Foundation, was working on her doctoral dissertation on the linguistic capabilities of gorillas and in 1972 started to teach Koko sign language. Koko's real name was Hanabi-Ko, Japanese for fireworks child. Other cats followed after All Ball's death, but researchers reported that the gorilla kept "mourning" the original cat years later. The first was named All Ball, a grey and white tail-less kitten, given to Koko for her birthday in 1984. Instead, she had a series of kittens as pets. Koko watched movies and television, with her handlers saying her favourite book was The Three Little Kittens. Her favourite movies, they said, included the Eddie Murphy version of Doctor Doolittle and Free Willy and her favourite TV show was Wild Kingdom.ĭespite attempts by her keepers to introduce male partners, Koko never became a mother. To view apes as nice and caring was new to the public and a big improvement." "It changed the image of apes, and gorillas in particular, for the better, such as through the children's book Koko's Kitten that many young people have grown up with. ![]() DlHANqVYlE- the individual was super smart, like all the apes, and also sensitive, something not everyone expected from a 'King Kong' type animal that movies depict as dangerous and formidable," Emory University primate researcher Frans de Waal said in an email Thursday. ![]() Koko the gorilla, pictured here on the October 1978 cover of National Geographic, has died at 46. ![]()
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