[Kip Russell]

This journalistic tour de force reminds me of an article I read once about a gorilla being taught sign language having encountered radishes for the first time. Not having a sign for 'radish', the gorilla referred to them as 'cry hurt food'. This is what the 'journalist' has done here.

I recall reading of a gorilla that had been taught sign language, and when she was denied a treat for some reason, she started signing, "dirty, dirty, dirty".

She invented cursing.

I'm normally the furthest thing from an animal rights activist, but the grating of limited rights to non-human apes may well make good sense.

[Kip Russell]

grating granting

There needs to be an edit function for one's posts...

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Yes. They would feed her cabbage and such as between meals snacks, something for her to browse on, and of course they collectively called it browse.

Koko started mysteriously signing by rubbing the upper edge of her hand back and forth right above her eyes.

It took the humans weeks to figure out that she was using her Ameslan sign for (eye) brows to ask for browse.

She invented homonyms as well!