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Koko, gorilla famed for using sign language and crying over pet kitten, dead at 46
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| 6/21/18
| Lia Eustachewich
Posted on 06/21/2018 10:21:53 AM PDT by a little elbow grease
Koko, the thoughtful gorilla who captivated the world through her ability to use sign language and revealed an empathetic side to great apes, has died. She was 46.
The western lowland gorilla passed away in her sleep Tuesday morning at the Gorilla Foundations preserve in Californias Santa Cruz mountains, the foundation said.
Koko touched the lives of millions as an ambassador for all gorillas and an icon for interspecies communication and empathy, the foundation said on its website. She was beloved and will be deeply missed.
Koko was believed to have had an IQ of between 75 and 95 and could sign more than 1,000 words. The average IQ of a human is around 90 to 110. She also understood spoken English.
Born at the San Francisco Zoo, the gentle, nearly 300-pound ape began learning sign language as a baby in 1974 from Dr. Francine Penny Patterson as part of a Stanford University project.
She spent her entire life in captivity and became a celebrity in her own right.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: alreadyposted; commongestures; doasearchnexttime; epigraphyandlanguage; gestures; gorilla; humangestures; iq; koko; kokoharambe; kokoobit; signlanguage; zoo
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To: a little elbow grease
Koko was believed to have had an IQ of between 75 and 95Higher than the average democrat.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:24:26 AM PDT
by
mountn man
(The Pleasure You Get From Life, Is Equal To The Attitude You Put Into It)
To: a little elbow grease
First Harambe and now this? It is a horrible decade for gorillas. Hopefully they run a nice tribute on The Gorilla Channel.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:24:42 AM PDT
by
edh
To: a little elbow grease
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:24:59 AM PDT
by
NohSpinZone
(First thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers)
To: a little elbow grease
“Believed to have an IQ”
How does that work, exactly?
To: mountn man
Koko was believed to have had an IQ of between 75 and 95 Higher than the average democrat.
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ROFL
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:26:12 AM PDT
by
a little elbow grease
(Zip ties and duct tape are far more productive than pussy hats and #metoo tweets)
To: a little elbow grease
Rest in peace, sweet Koko.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:26:24 AM PDT
by
Menehune56
("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
To: a little elbow grease
Koko was fully qualified to be an Arizona Senator - Koko learned that ‘thumbs down’ meant a ‘no vote’.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:26:30 AM PDT
by
SERKIT
("Blazing Saddles" explains it all.......)
To: rightwingcrazy
Like a man that believes he’s a woman?
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:30:13 AM PDT
by
mrmeyer
(You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
To: a little elbow grease
MSM: Koko dies on Trumps watch
To: a little elbow grease
To: a little elbow grease
Koko was believed to have had an IQ of between 75 and 95
To: Menehune56
I liked the vids of Koko and the kittens.
To: a little elbow grease
“Born at the San Francisco Zoo.”
Probably gender confused.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:42:15 AM PDT
by
Huskrrrr
To: a little elbow grease
HOpefully Scholastic News puts out an extra edition.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:45:47 AM PDT
by
blu
(Queen of the Andals and the First Men, Lady of the Seven Kingdoms, and Protector of the Realm)
To: Meet the New Boss
I don’t see Florida on that list.
Wait, never mind...
To: a little elbow grease
Koko was believed to have had an IQ of between 75 and 95 Sounds eerily similar to a particularly troublesome demographic we have to deal with.
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posted on
06/21/2018 10:53:34 AM PDT
by
doorgunner69
(Give me the liberty to take care of my own security..........)
To: mountn man
Koko was vastly smarter than Valerie Jarrett.
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:06:01 AM PDT
by
gigster
(Cogito, Ergo, Ronaldus Magnus Conservatus)
To: a little elbow grease
She spent her entire life in captivity and became a celebrity in her own right.Probably lived ten years longer than she would have in the wild. More happily? Who knows- she was never exposed to the wild life.
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:13:54 AM PDT
by
JimRed
( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
To: Meet the New Boss
If you start at the bottom of the list and go backwards, you can notice an interesting trend...the crapholes of the world have the lowest IQs.
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posted on
06/21/2018 11:16:54 AM PDT
by
jrestrepo
(See you all in Galt's gulch)
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