You get to see Koko on off days when she doesn't want to sign with Penny, when she seems bored and restless with her daily routine, or when she rebels against Penny's authority by engaging in minor destructive acts within her living area.
Her home, basically a bland, institutional space with hardly any natural light, is depressing and there are few scenes with Koko enjoying the outdoors freely. Despite Dr. Appearance Adjust the colors to reduce glare and give your eyes a break. You have the maximum of videos in My List.
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You have the maximum of shows in My List. Battle for Koko Clip 2m 24s. Providing Support for PBS. Koko holding her kitten. She listens and reacts well when she wants to, but when she doesn't, she rips things up and bounces around the room. It's pretty impressive how much she's learned at this young age.
She speaks using around signs and at least recognizes another or so, but it also makes me wonder what good it does other than to prove that apes are intelligent enough and close enough to man that they're capable of it. It's not like she was ever going to live in the mountains with other gorillas and communicate with them the same way and it seems like we already knew that gorillas had their own methods of communicating amongst themselves, so what's the point?
Letterboxd is an independent service created by a small team, and we rely mostly on the support of our members to maintain our site and apps. Where to watch. Director Barbet Schroeder. Studios Les Films du Losange Ina. Genre documentary. A Talking Gorilla!?! It's pretty cool to watch, could be better. Koko was a national treasure and totally deserved her own doc. If this is not language, maybe I don't understand the term.
Scientists on the skeptics side have claimed Koko really isn't engaging in language because Koko's signing lacks the grammatical complexity of say a Western language like English, French, German or Italian.
In English, we make the distinction between "boy eats sandwich" and "sandwich eats boy". While such subtlety of word-order may not be the case with Koko, generally speaking, she does appear to be expressing unique thoughts, not just engaging in "monkey see, monkey do".
So my question is: does a language have to be grammatically intricate to be a language? The documentary chronicles the history and goals of her care-givers, particularly Penny Patterson who is really a mother figure in Koko's life, and how they want to better understand the inner thought processes of non-human primates.
As shocking as it seems to us now, as recently as the 's, it was believed that animals didn't really have thoughts and emotions, and they were just organisms which respond to stimuli.
The ground-breaking work of Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey was still on the edge of scientific recognition, showing how non-human primates exhibited much behavior strikingly similar to humans.
At the very least, Goodall and Fossey proved that apes and chimps definitely have thoughts and emotions. Penny Patterson decided to take the idea one step further and see if we could understand better the inner reality of a primate by not only raising her from birth with humans but teaching her sign language to communicate. And she was of course Koko the Gorilla. Much of the documentary shows Koko spewing out sign-language words in no particular order but they clearly are unique messages of her thought processes.
Koko at one point asked for a pet, and her care-givers gave her a stuffed animal, but Koko clearly didn't want a stuffed toy, and kept signing "sad".
She wanted a real animal. She was shown a litter of kittens not long afterwards and selected a gray kitten who she named "All Ball" because the kitten was like a little ball of fur, I suspect. Koko and All Ball became best buddies. There are few images which tug at our heart-strings than that of Koko, a gorilla who probably has the strength of about 10 men, holding little All Ball.
The image is strikingly maternal, like a mother and child. Koko has so many of the same emotions humans have. The late Robin Williams had visited Koko a few times, and when news of his death was told to Koko, she became very sad and somber.
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