Keep 'em fired, don't pay 'em a cent.
This is a wild animal living in a caged environment.
You have to expect some behavior from a gorilla which might seem strange to humans. They don't even know if it's deviant behavior for gorillas.
Bleep, deviant behavior in humankind, is, according to the fagachussets SJC, an "evolving paradigm" (yes, those same people who brought you homosexual marriage).
There's barely a baseline for gorilla behavior in a natural habitat, how messed up can a caged animal be?
How would a human behave in those conditions (besides Charlton Heston, LOL)?
What the freak do these gold diggers expect?
What schools did these idiots go to? Probably liberal (what other kind is there). They should be learning and writing papers about Koko.
I've always been fascinated by the whole Koko animal-human communication experiment.
Unless the lead researcher (defendant) really is a lesbo (which I doubt), and has somehow flipped out Koko, then I don't think Koko's demands are too far out of line.
Gorilla's don't wear clothes. Maybe bare skin and breasts are some kind of visual signal to her. I could imagine clothes freaking me out if all I was programed for was a hairy (naked) body.
Sounds like Koko might just want to know what she's dealing with.
Who knows how her brain deals with captivity and being continually surrounded by another species, hidden behind the falseness of human clothing?
Olfactory signals might not be enough for a gorilla, most humans have lost (or are unaware of) a lot of their sense of smell. Remember, a gorilla's genes are pretty close to ours.
Animals also have a lot of visual signals lost to most humans.
As far as having to clean up the cage, WTF did they expect?
If you had an experimental animal that you'd invested your lifespan and professional reputation on, would you want a minimum wage, non-english-speaking type messing around in the cage?
A recent hospital experience reaffirmed that I don't want those types anywhere near me. I was essentially a captive, they didn't speak my language, and they smelled bad.
They were smaller, shorter, and a different color from me. It was uncomfortable, and for all it mattered, I was a captive of a foreign species.
For all it mattered, I could have been a gorilla (well, except of the hair and weight, I pretty much am, LOL).
I hung in there as long as I needed to, just get checked out normally for my insurance to cover it.
Apply that experience to a completely different species, with a much lower IQ, and put up cage bars.
Bleep these women that are suing.
I can't believe people on this thread are acting like the gorilla did it. It wasn't the gorilla, it was the caretaker who is causing the problem. Find a caretaker who doesn't have this fetish.
It would be like me saying to one of the lab girls,
"Oh look, Koko just signed that you need to run out to get me some meat lovers pizza (thin crust), pick up a case of Yuengling on the way home, and then dress up in a skimpy french maid outfit to dust the furniture as I watch the game this afternoon. Isn't she just precious, Koko is also apparently signing that you are a sex kitten and need to be spanked because you've been ever so naughty."This is all about a pervy lesbo scientist trying to get her jollies by blaming it all on a monkey.