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Koko the gorilla on film
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Ohio, USA (NPM): 28-year-old graduate student Penny Patterson received permission to work with and study Koko, teaching her the same hand-sign-oriented language used by the deaf. […] Koko not only developed a daily vocabulary of around 300 words (not to mention another 400 occasional-use phrases), but also demonstrated that her use of the signs wasn’t based around inviolate holds. She could, in fact, recombine words in novel fashion to form new compound names — pointing to a ring and calling it a “finger bracelet,” for instance.
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