Did you know there's a talking gorilla? | #TalkingGorilla | BBC

I’m more afraid of chimpanzees compared to gorillas. Chimp attacks scared the living crap out of me.

If we consider the entirety of their place in the world vs ours,, theirs is more important to the sustainability of it.

“Nooooo”
-ceaser.

That's why I don't breath and eat because dust mites and bacteria might have human abilities I don't know. I might hurt them.

Look, my damn cat is smart enough to know a good number of words, and I know this. My friends' Collie is even more crazy smart and knows TONS of them. You can't tell me that the gorilla raised from birth with a human adoptive mother wouldn't be able to communicate, it's patently absurd to believe otherwise to anyone who's ever had a few cats or dogs (or birds!) who are obviously not as intelligent as a primate.

P.S. - I've raised several cats and they are all smart enough to know themselves in the mirror. The ones that don't freak out when they see their own reflection.

😮 I think Coco has proven the point why keep pudding harmless creatures like gorillas in zoos in cages when they clearly have shown you did they have human-like feelings lead them in their environments and do everything you can to protect them by law as a black man it wasn't long ago some people thought that we were just like apes wasn't smart enough to exist on our own😢

Are you still looking for the missing link? Look into the Ancient Alien Theory. It makes more sense than evolution from apes and creation. We are part ape and extra terrestrial through experimentation. There is the link for you. You're welcome.

just look around

Is that gorilla your boyfriend/girlfriend?

'How human can a gorilla be'...................................why do we always think we're 'better' ?
Why not change it to 'how gorilla can a human be' ?

Sweet Sweet Sweet!

I see people in the comments believing in something that is not in this video which is, talking gorilla. They just believed the report. This IS brainwashing! Get over it, it’s an animal dumb asses!

Every creature with a brain thinks....to some degree or another. WE ALL COME FROM THE SAME STUFF, FROM THE SAME INTELLIGENT DESIGNER...

Anything that's alive communicates sign language verbal talking even trees talk you can tell a dog to sit down you can have it service dog service so yeah animals understand humans animals can talk to humans in their own way a dog pulls you barks etc..

Koko wrote the Rebecca Black hit Friday's for Ark Music.

Penny is a pioneer in her own rightful right! We underestimate everyone including animals. Jane Goodall and others are pioneers.

CoCo , I named my cat after her ❣️

Apes aren't our closest relatives. 🤦‍♂️✝️Did you know: GOD OF THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE CREATED EVERYTHING ABOUT SIX THOUSAND YEARS AGO. NO SUCH THING AS EVOLUTION AND BILLIONS OF YEARS OF AGO. DINOSAURS LIVED WITH MAN. FOLLOW ASTROPHYSICIST DR JASON LISLE✝️

Koko was signing the English language on a daily basis. Consider how difficult that is. Like, how difficult is it for humans to learn another language? Pretty challenging, right? How many of us are bilingual or multilingual? I'm only fluent in English. I can speak some Spanish, French, Swedish, Norwegian, German, Japanese, and Mandarin/Chinese, but it's really really hard to become fluent. It's tough to even reach the point of being conversational. NOW... imagine trying to learn to speak/sign/gesture dolphin, or whale, or dog, or cat, or mouse, or owl, or gorilla. And not JUST mimicking, but understanding what the sounds mean, and how putting them with other sounds/words/gestures might impact their context. That's what Koko was doing. She learned the language of another species much better than we have ever been able to translate barks, for example. Dolphins can echolocate and send click messages across miles to call each other, or warn of danger, or to invite others to a new location, and we have barely scratched the surface on how they do that. We haven't decoded or translated an animal language yet. We see/hear that they send messages and respond to each other accordingly, accurately, and with meaningful purpose, but we haven't memorized their words. If we did mimic them, it would be a lot more rudimentary than what Koko and other gorillas (chimps, apes, parrots) have been able to learn about us. Yet people are still so quick to dismiss and demean animal intelligence. When we can't even come close to doing what they can do. When Koko's trainer lost a family member and Koko found out, she signed compassionate words, sympathy, empathy, sadness. She was gently consoling. Koko loved her kitten Ball. When she lost Ball she told us, in English, that she was sad. Even if a person thinks she was just "mimicking," I'd say she managed to "mimic" the words AND proper emotions of another species pretty freaking accurately. And it wasn't just for personal gain or treats. There's not much for a Gorilla to gain by grieving, other than it being a healthy way to cope with loss. Humans aren't necessarily superior.

I really wish people would stop thinking animals don’t have a soul a conscience a personality
Feelings, emotions, animals protect their owners they protect the young they protect their pack. Animals are intuitive. Animals are loving animals, like to play. Animals mourn when they lose a baby God, dammit animals have common sense. Some animals are smarter than we are in many ways. Birds, a lot of animals have navigation built right into them. I wish people would stop underestimating the intelligence of animals they may not be like us, but they’re different. They are stronger than us in many ways, and they are weaker than us and someways just as we are stronger and weaker than them in someways. God doesn’t create anything that’s stupid everything has feelings everything comes from the same source of consciousness as we do, I wish people would stop thinking animals don’t have rights they should have the same rights as we do nothing should be caged or tested on or used for food that is alive. has blood running through his veins, and feels.

Maybe we should be asking

“How Gorilla can a Human Be?”

STOP domesticating wild animals for your own needs. They belong in the WILD and the sick and injured ones in a sanctuary where they receive the least possible human interaction and hopefully returned to the wild where possible

Please don't accept the digit@l currency or the Artifici@l intelligence (ai) system that is coming, it is against GOD. who have ears let him hear.!!!

JESUS is coming soon and JESUS is the only way to salvation accept JESUS as your LORD and SAVIOR today.!.!

Every critic needs to know this: Awareness and Perception are everything. Just because your not aware of something or don't perceive an event, doesn't make it untrue or fake except, maybe to you

apparently it died in 2018, rip

Koko was a fraud

Dawg bro is older than my parents lmao

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Of course they can communicate with humans! Hell dogs can do that. We as a species have got our pompous heads so far shoved up our asses with conceit...

How does evolution work again? We came from apes but some monkeys didn’t bother evolving?

You think that Apes are aware that we like are the future version/ more envolved version of themselves?

Great job penny and koko❤

That is this racist shit....

must be japanese

Koko the gorilla coined the phrase "my bad!"

Can CNN's Don Lemon do sign language?

As far as hoaxes go, I like this one. Talking monkeys!

They don’t want to pay taxes.

Monkey see monkey do, anything trapped with humans for a lifetime will develop humanistic traits

finding out 7 years later still amazes me lol

It’s always very fascinating to see an ape being trained to be like a human, even though they’re definitely not related to us, but they for sure are in god’s image like we are.

I already knew about this, he's in bed with my wife, every night and they make fun of my lil dink.

Animals absolutely have feelings and thoughts. Humans generally underestimate how intelligent animals are because we measure their behaviors against our own that we feel reflect speech. However, the story of Koko speaking with sign language has been proven to be totally faked by her handlers. There is no animal that is or has ever been able to form coherent, independent ideas and communicate them through any form of human "speech." Every example of this is either trained responses to rewards, or misinterpretation and/or misinformation provided by researchers. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There is evidence that some animals can communicate complex information among their own kind, such as as Corvids that "spread the word" among their population about a person that has been threatening to one or more of their kind. This has resulted in aggressive behavior toward a specific person from all birds of that population for miles.

that isn't mother, that is momi

Not gonna Lie. By looking at the thumbnail, for a sec I really thought the white girl was with a black dude 😅

I think it's important to understand that person and people does not necessarily mean human or humans...We are all animals. Gorillas and Orangutans may very well be people too, just not yet capable of the things humans can learn and do. Other animals as well might very well be capable of being called a person, some argue that corvids (Ravens, Crows, Mapgpies, Bluejays) might also be on the spectrum of self awareness and consciousness, they certainly show the ability to develop some rudimentary communication, relationships and puzzle solving ability.

Guys, she's making kong 😮

Of course she had consciousness of self

No gorillas talked in this video.