Koko wanted to be a mother, but ultimately never found the right partner to give her a baby. First there was Michael, a silverback gorilla whose parents were killed when he was a baby in Cameroon ...

Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language ... "I think that's one of Koko's deepest regrets is not having a baby," she told ABC News. Koko's beloved cats, Ms. Gray and Ms. Black, whom she ...

Video footage from that time shows Patterson playing games with the baby gorilla and teaching her how to sign. It grew into a decades-long friendship that revealed a deeper side of Koko and her ...

The following year she began teaching sign language to the baby gorilla as part of her Ph.D. project, which made Koko famous around the world for her ability to “talk.” But over the course of ...

Koko, the thoughtful gorilla who captivated the world through ... nearly 300-pound ape began learning sign language as a baby in 1974 from Dr. Francine “Penny” Patterson as part of a Stanford ...

“Koko, the Gorilla Who Talks,” which airs Wednesday ... They have been in each other’s lives a very long time: Patterson, who met a baby Koko in 1971 when she was a Stanford graduate student ...

Koko, the signing gorilla, made me uncomfortable ... about longing to have a baby. When she could not conceive, she adopted kittens. Not only did Koko give us insight into ourselves, she was ...

Koko had been watching Mister Rogers on television since she was just a baby gorilla, and the two became fast friends, according to The Gorilla Foundation. Koko showed Mister Rogers how to sign "I ...

Thousands of people are commiserating on the Gorilla Foundation's Facebook page posting about Koko's death. The top comment comes from Jess Cameron: "Legit bawling like a baby right now.

Koko’s first cat was named All Ball, and she cared for the kitten as though it were a tiny baby gorilla. When All Ball sadly died, Koko was devastated. For her 44th birthday, the staff at the ...

Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language ... “Legit bawling like a baby right now,” a person posted on the foundation’s Facebook page. “From an early age I was fascinated with Koko ...