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A good productive life for an extraordinary creature and friend to another species in desperate need when it comes to connecting with others.
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She was the first thing I thought about when I found out that Robin Williams died.
How sad; Koko was a living embodiment of hope and potential.
Koko
R.I.P. Koko.
The two forum threads should be merged.
For those interested, this is the Robin Williams VHS tape they handed to Koko: In the Wild - Dolphins with Robin Williams, a 1995 PBS documentary.
It is available online in a couple of places, for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4xSJiZA1Rg
Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/06/21/r-i-p-koko-the-amazing-goril.html
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The gorilla dying is sad, but being sad doesn’t make facilitated communications any more real.
Proof that celebs like Koko more than Trump.
Everyone except for the bigots and sociopaths likes Koko more…
Much has been written about how Koko’s supposed communicative abilities owe a great deal to the potentially fantastical interpretations of Ms. Patterson.
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