A Show About Animals
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A Show About Animals
Many of us dream about talking to other animals - but what if we already can? A deep dive into Koko the Gorilla, one of the most hotly contested stories in American science - and what it all says about us humans. From VICE World News.
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BONUS: A Trip to the Zoo
We hit the road to meet Ndume, the last living gorilla who had been part of The Gorilla Foundation. But we're in for a wild surprise.
To...
8. I Just Knew I Was a Chimp
So... can we talk to animals? We look back at what we can learn from the ape language research experiments, and what it says about humans.
7. "Man Is Stupid"
Koko addresses the world at the Paris Climate Conference - and she is not impressed with humankind. And when she passes away a few years later, her le...
6. Nipplegate
Penny Patterson focuses on Koko’s future, including trying to find her a mate. But former foundation staffers say behind the earnest headlines and che...
5. "A Witch Hunt"
The claws come out at a major science conference in New York, throwing into question the field of animal language research and the future of Project K...
4. Nim Chimpsky from the Bronx
Nim the chimp moves uptown into a picturesque mansion in the Bronx. But the experiment only gets harder to manage. And Dr. Herb Terrace reveals a shoc...
3. Uptown Chimp
A rival ape language experiment takes shape. Herbert Terrace, a psychology professor at Columbia University, moves a chimp into a brownstone, names hi...
2. A Gorilla Who Lied
Koko is learning signs at lightning speed, and Penny’s getting all kinds of attention for her work. But defining language isn’t exactly straightforwar...
1. A Talking Gorilla
It’s the early 1970s, and grad student Penny Patterson sets out to investigate a big question: is language a uniquely human skill? So she begins an am...
Project Koko
In 1972 a Stanford graduate student named Penny Patterson meets a young gorilla named Koko at the San Francisco Zoo, sets out to teach her sign langua...