KOKO THE GORILLA: Koko birkin bag. Practical Koko possession bag
RESEARCHER: No, Koko. You can’t have a Birkin bag.
KOKO: Good Birkin good Koko give beautiful Koko deserve gorilla
RESEARCHER: Koko, we simply can’t afford a Birkin bag. It is an unjustifiable expense.
KOKO: jealousy professor
We could have taught Koko about assault rifles and trained her how to use one and then told her she could do whatever she wanted with the assault rifle and I think this would have told us A LOT about ourselves
I'll never forget her asking Mr. Rogers about his cufflinks. "What flower?" she asked him. He explained that they were actually suns given to him by his grandfather. Makes me wonder how well gorillas understand visual abstractions, and terribly miss them both. www.popsugar.com/news/koko-go...
I was afraid that after some primates did words somebody would decide they must have souls and pester them about it. Relieved that this hasn't happened.