The obituaries of Koko the gorilla, who died Tuesday at the age of 46, tell all the same kind of wistful, aspirational stories. They explain how Koko’s trainers, Francine “Penny” Patterson and her ...

1998: Koko the gorilla, student of American Sign Language and surrogate mother to orphaned kittens, holds the first-known live, interspecies internet chat. America Online, then the gorilla of internet ...

For the last four decades, Koko, the world’s most famous gorilla, has lived in a trailer in Silicon Valley, the subject of the longest-running project on ape sign language. With a reported vocabulary ...

When Koko died in her sleep in California on June 19, people throughout the world immediately began mourning the gorilla. Koko was a charmer and undeniably smart. She took an unusual route to fame.

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Koko, a western lowland gorilla known for her impressive sign language ...

Simply sign up to the Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When, four years ago, a gorilla named Koko died in her sleep in Woodside, California, the news made headlines around the ...

Koko the gorilla, famous for learning how to speak using sign language with her human trainer, has died at the age of 46. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to ...