The Gorilla Foundation / Koko.org
Rated • 34 reviews • animals • koko.org
This is a great site about Koko the gorilla. She can communicate with sign language. Koko has demonstrated well over 1,000 such gestures. She also understands over 2,000 words of spoken English, so people can speak to her and she will respond in sign. She also communicates with her normal gorilla vocalizations, of purrs and cries. In more than 28 years together with her trainer, Koko has expressed the whole range of emotions associated with humans, like, happiness, sadness, love, grief, embarrassment.
