Except here, the annual guest of honor is a nearly 300-pound Western lowland gorilla named Koko. Patterson, 69, first met Koko at the San Francisco Zoo in 1971, when she was a 24-year-old graduate ...

Koko the gorilla, the super-intelligent ape who understands ... Patterson and Cohn) were together when phone calls started coming in about the sad event. After the first call, Koko came to ...

Koko the gorilla uses sign language to tells graduate ... Koko grieved for months and once signed "sad bad trouble" when asked about the kitty. She even helped Patterson pen a children's book ...

Still, few of them get assigned as much humanity as Koko, the western lowland gorilla that purportedly ... Koko reportedly grieved for months, and signed “sad bad trouble." ...

"The Gorilla Foundation is sad to announce the passing of our beloved Koko," the research center says, informing the world about the death of a gorilla who fascinated and elated millions of people ...

“She became extremely sad,” Patterson said of Koko. “Robin’s ability to just ‘hang out’ with Koko, a gorilla, and in minutes become one of her closest friends, was extraordinary and ...

Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language ... "She was looking a little sad and worried, and she looked straight at me and held two signs," she said. "One was ‘patient’ and the second ...

Koko the gorilla doted on her pet kitten as if it were ... but she wouldn’t play with it and kept signing: “Sad.” Koko, whose extraordinary ability to communicate with humans and aptitude ...

Then she started whimpering — a distinct hooting sound that gorillas make when they are sad. We all started crying together,” researcher Ronald Cohn told the New York Post. Koko the gorilla ...

“Koko touched the lives of millions as an ambassador for all gorillas and an icon for interspecies communication and empathy,” the foundation wrote in a statement. The Gorilla Foundation is ...

She signed “sad” and “bad,” once again, illustrating that humans that they aren’t alone in experiencing grief. Famously, Koko exemplified what it meant to give a real gorilla hug.

Koko heard about Mr Williams’s death in 2016 and became “extremely sad”, signing the word “cry” and bowing her head, according to a blog on the Gorilla Foundation website. Announcing ...