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From: ronse@prlb2.UUCP (Christian Ronse)
Newsgroups: sci.bio
Subject: Speaking gorilla and chimp (was Re: Stupidity about intelligence)
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Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 04:57:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 30 04:57:57 1987
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> One of the spookier data I have on this is that one gorilla who'd been taught
> language (Ameslan, I think), a female named Koko, expressed a primitive but
> unmistakable notion of afterlife when discussing the recent death of her pet
> kitten (I do have a source for this, but it was a 'new-age' magazine; you
> may not care to trust it).
> 
>       Eric S. Raymond
>       UUCP:  {{seismo,ihnp4,rutgers}!cbmvax,sdcrdcf!burdvax}!snark!eric

I read that there was a film about Koko, by Barbet Schroeder. A female chimp
named Washoe, was also taught Ameslan, and another one, named Lana, talked by
pressing buttons (see Carl Sagan's book `The Dragons of Eden').


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