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While we”ve been featuring Koko a lot lately in KokoPix, Ndume – her sensitive male companion – has also been doing quite well, […]
While we”ve been featuring Koko a lot lately in KokoPix, Ndume – her sensitive male companion – has also been doing quite well, […]
Does Koko look ambassadorial or what with a beautiful scarf draped over her shoulder? The truth is that when Koko “speaks” (through American […]
Koko likes to eat outside as much as possible (naturally) but unlike most gorillas, she has accumulated some accoutrements from her anthropocentric environment. […]
After Penny helps select a pencil for Koko, Koko opens her notebook and ponders what to write in it. While Koko has never […]
Koko”s learned ability to communicate with humans in (American) sign language has benefits that we at the Gorilla Foundation often take for granted. […]
We use the term “enrichment” a lot at the Gorilla Foundation. The term generally refers to anything that makes the gorillas” lives more […]
Like most primates, Koko is sensitive about her weight. Here she is standing on a scale while Penny reads the results. Koko knows […]
Whoops – we didn”t mean to hide Koko”s companion Ndume from you for so long, so here he is back in the camera […]
Dr. Penny Patterson and a staff member scavenged the local rummage sale today looking for enrichment items for Koko (shown above) and Ndume […]
Ndume”s birthday was actually on Oct. 10, but we decided to celebrate it one week later so there would be time to assemble […]
Penny couldn”t have been happier or more surprised when she found a “male” version of Koko”s favorite doll, “waterbaby,” at the local rummage […]
Koko is not the only one who can take a great photo (see the recent award for her self-portrait magazine cover). Dr. Ron […]
Koko reviews a painting done by a peer – the chimpanzee named “Ai” who is at the Kyoto Primate Institute in Japan. Unlike […]
We just happened to like this new close-up by Ron Cohn of Koko standing in front of an (intentionally) out-of-focus blue plastic storage […]
What do you think is going on in the above photo? What are we looking at? Email your guesses to: [email protected]
In the KokoPix posted on Nov. 4, Koko Extends Halloween, there was a photo of Koko behind her porch mesh, with what appeared […]
Is Ndume smiling because he sees beautiful Koko on one of the above platforms, or is he just posing for the camera? Either […]
Ever since she received a painting from the famous mathematically inclined chimpanzee named AI (“Love” in Japanese) at the Kyoto Primate Institute, Koko […]
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