Koko learns a new sign: Butterfly
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Uploaded by kokoflix on Aug 7, 2009
Koko has a vocabulary of over 1000 signs (American Sign Language) most of which she learned during the first few years of the project. However, she continues to learn (and occasionally invent) new signs, to improve her ability to communicate with her caregivers..
In this 1-minute video clip, the sign for"butterfly" comes up in the course of a conversation between Penny and Koko and Penny demonstrates the sign for Koko. It is not a very easy sign for a gorilla to make, because of the thumb dexterity required to interlock her two hands. Nevertheless Koko makes a modest attempt and Penny encourages her to continue trying. Like most people, Koko responds well to praise.
The Gorilla Foundation will be sharing more of these ongoing "conversations with Koko" in a new web feature called KokoFlix, coming soon to koko.org.
Date Added: Apr 27, 2007
Videographer: Ron Cohn
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He's sooooo cute
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@8374472 oh im sorry i miss read,i thought you were saying that koko speaking in sign was fake
again my bad,have a nice day lol
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@coltsrule5150 Koko was calling the flowers fake.
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@zooweemama24 its not fake
there are vidoes of these two going back 20-25 years
awful long time to fake it
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Trainer: "look! There are flowers here!
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"Koko learns a new sign: Butt...
Oh this is gunna be good!
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@osbely So, your god isn't capable of making intelligent hominids? Wait, that explains christians!
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koko seems to say "fake" quite often :D
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i know dude! Seriously, don't lie to her, they are fake Penny and just for that you owe Koko a bouque!
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all koko has to learn now is "gay". and after that she can join youtube and troll around writing witty comments like "fake and gay".
Pravoizavlijesvijeta 9 months ago 67
"FAKE"... make my day....maybe a week!
zooweemama24 6 months ago 33