We have a responsibility to all life forms. We are the keepers of this beautiful planet and all life on earth. It's sad we are in such a rush to destroy it.
@@leegonzalez4644 46 years assuming she would have lived that long exposed to nature. By that logic she could have easily been poached before reaching that age. She seemed happy and helped a lot with bringing up gorilla awareness.
Being in "class" for 8.5 hours a day is no way for a gorilla to live. It is not natural and only done to fulfill the sick curiosity of humans. I do not appreciate that at all.
Yeah that was definitely heartbreaking. You completely understood the point he was trying to get across. It must of been horrifying for him. They call him an animal but the barbarism of some people tells a different story😭
I visited Coco when I was 17. We hired a sign language interpreter just to have a five-minute talk. It was one of the high points of my childhood. Update... 3 years later. If you want to know what my experience was like, read the earliest comments and responses, and you will have your answer. Because I'm getting sick of explaining it to you people! I appreciate your curiosity cause I would be too, but... The sheer fact that I have to try to explain it to morons who obviously can't read almost on a daily basis. It's quite frankly ruining and tainting my memory of the experience. So if school hasn't failed you and you're not a moron, maybe you should look in the earliest comments and responses, and you will have your answers..... Thank you, and have a wonderful life. The Management...
@@georgekurgansky5986 You must be 17 or younger... It's certainly not adulthood so what would you call it? In fact, in many cases 18 isn't adulthood either and neither is 21. Adulthood is attained through life experience and occurs at different times for different people. For example, I wouldn't consider myself having attained adulthood until I moved out on my own at age 22. I certainly wasn't an adult at 17 and therefore was pretty much a child.
My family (I was kinda in it) taught my dog to say 4 words and those words were “I love you to” but she didn’t do sign language she used the words while howling she could only use those words while my family were acting like husky’s it sounded like “I LOVE you!” But the dog said “I LOVE YOU TO...~” she treated me like a son She is the best!
I remember when Koko died. My heart still breaks for Francine. She dedicated her entire life to Koko, understanding that to have a child would forever come between her and Koko.
No animal is stupid. They all speak their own language. Its not their fault we don't understand them. Every animal understands feelings and body language. Its truly amazing Koko learned sign language and was able to express feelings. She always had those feelings just no way to explain them to people. Love is what did this patience love and the heart will always speak.
@@radexyz-fx8ix they are sentient beings, even if you don’t understand what they express. I’ve been with both of those animals and they shouldn’t be seen any differently
She is only the first.... I bet more apes are learning to communicate especially now with computers, tablets and AI which have benefits (a supreme ability to be patient and ability to understand subtle nuisance expressed). Yes once Apes learn to Google SEARCH....we could see even more amazing extensions of intelligent behaviour.
Lovely piece on Coco. Sad to hear that her whole life was in captivity, caged for research. She was a big hearted being. Thank you Coco for all the love and wisdom you shared.
@@edwardmcintyre3708 So if this were you, likely to die in a car accident, you would prefer living in a cage for your whole life? Mostly without other humans? Your idea of a happy and safe life? Really it is much kinder and more ethical to study unobtrusively, in nature, and work in the community to educate and protect like Jane Goodall.
actually smarter than my coworkers in california my coworkers have lower IQ than koko, in fact if california didn't lie about their actual average IQ a vegetable can beat them outright.
I couldn't stop crying from that one, OMG . . . ! ! ! 😭 We call animals 'beasts', but it is we humans who are truly barbaric - to one another, to the animals, and to our environment.
Mich!els story made me hate poachers even more .. they are some of the worse cold blooded monsters in the world .. to bad Michael wasn't able to get his revenge on them .. i hope there is at least a special place waiting for them in hell .. R.I.P Michael you are truly missed on earth and i know you are getting all your mothers hugs in heaven now and from your best friend koko too .. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤
His story is so sad. That he could remember what happened to his mother and describe it is incredible, very sad that we as an intelligent species is still capable of such cruelty not only to other animals but to our own species as well. We still haven't learned from our past mistakes and judging from how we are going so far this year we aren't going to any time soon.
She learned how to communicate at such young age And it took me 5 years to actually talk (Yes indeed, this comment is really deep, If you cant get it, it means MONKE IS VERY SUPERIOR)
@@TheNiplesslyNippled I don't care how much money you give me, I'm not getting in a cage with a Gorilla. Sure she was probably paid, but it's very ignorant to assume that's why she did it
@youtubesucks1821 facts like people really think EVERYONE is miserable at their job or career etc like hello some people genuinely love what they do and have fun with it lol
A few weeks later Dr. Patterson gave Koko a little gray kitten. Koko picked up the kitten very carefully and caressed it gently. When asked what she was going to call it, she signed "All Ball" perhaps she gave it this name because Koko have no tail. Without a tail it look like a ball of fur. koko carried All ball around on her back. The kitten clutch Koko's fur, the way baby gorillas do with their mothers. Koko love to plays with All ball the two became close friend one day All ball was hit by a car died. For days afterward Koko miserable over the loss of her friend. Koko recover her good spirit when Dr. Patterson gave her another kitten to replace All ball.
That cat story sounds like a cruel and u unusual study... all ball was taken away or killed by these scientists to study her emotional tendencies and intellectual awareness
@@hosannahosanna2719 yep, despite how they try to advertise this as a pure story of an exceptionally human like gorilla, there's a reason she is the way she is and it's because of them fucking with her like that. essentially FORCING them to evolve emotionally.
I remember hearing Koko passed. How sad, but blessed we were to have her. She taught humans how to be human. And Michael describing how he watched his mother butchered, ouch!! Ppl can be EVIL!
@@darraghclarke1096 ain’t that the truth. I’m embarrassed to be apart of the human race when I see what we do to each other and Mother Earth. Example: China dumps so much raw sewage in the ocean it can be seen from space.
For me, there is no doubt that animals have emotions. They know love and grief. I had two cats, Toby and Teddy, that were brothers and it seemed to me that they loved each other, always curling up together, sleeping together and licking each others heads, playing, etc. When Toby died I put him in a box and covered him with a towel before burying him. I wanted Teddy to know his brother had died so he would not wonder and look for him later, so I put him by Toby's box. Teddy sniffed a bit, then climbed into the box and laid on top of his dead brother while he made weak, coarse meows for an hour. It was an eerie sound I had never heard before. When I couldn't take it any more I went to take Teddy out of the box. He hissed at me. In 19 years Teddy had never once hissed, even when I gave him a bath or he got shots at the vet. I cried because I knew the meows and hissing were Teddies cries for his brother. I cried more for Teddy's loss than I did for my own. He eventually came to sit in my lap, and was especially insistent on hugs, and excessively licked my face and hands. He did not eat for two days. He would sometimes sit very still and make those same eerie sounds before going to sleep. If that is not grief, I don't know what is. Eventually Teddy returned to being himself. He died two years later and was buried next to his brother Toby, separated only by a bag of cat treats and a fuzzy mouse.
Koko:gets a kitten and calls it all ball Me: awwww Kitten:tragedy Koko:signs sad emotions Me: *actualy crying because a gorrila showed more emotions than some people i know*
Robin Williams playing with Koko a giant gorilla is the most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen. I hope that wherever they are they can see one another. Also this looks like it was filmed on the set of trailer park boys.
I believe it was the only time Robin Williams seem to have left this world while simultaneously stayed in the world. It was pure and only others who have even for a minute have left earth while never going anywhere will understand what that means.
The fact that she could show emotions and Michael remembered his moms death means that they are closer to humans and like humans animals too deserve to live and not killed
@@lysergic4169 Grandparents? Hell no. Grandchildren if anything, and that goes back millions of years anyway. Modern primates are our close cousins (species-wise).
One thing I learned in this video was that Michael and Koko could paint. The fact that Michael CHOSE the black and white paint to create a picture of Apple the dog blows my mind. Truly amazing.
yeah I know.. if pause the video on the painting and look very carefully. almost look like a head of Apple. i can see the noise, the ears of a dog and the markings of Apple furr too.
It's quite clear, I did not waste these 24mins of my life. This video was really educational and eye opening. I can't look the world the same as I used to.
Koko played a joke on her trainer, calling a white towel "red". When the trainer asked Koko to show her the red, she pointed to small red piece of lint!!
In response to the question about her recognizing Robin Williams, I believe she did. Koko is one of the few animals to pass the mirror test . The mirror test, for those who don't know, is a test to see if an animal can recognize their reflection and since she knows what a picture it I believe it is fair to say that she recognized Robin on the movie cover.
But what's so sad. Koko can pass the mirror text whereas some humans can not. Now that's something to worry about. A Gorilla smarter than some humans. Dame!
It'd probably be a good thing if we taught more gorillas among other apes how to talk to us, that way they could communicate to us their thoughts and feelings, as well as, over time, get the general population to think of them more highly.
I wasn’t sad when they said koko died. The amount she was able to accomplish and prove was more than a lot of humans. In her 40 years I think she had more of a life than a lot of us. What an awesome story.
@TGM He's pretty stupid to think a gorilla is smarter than him. Koko was a scam, she never understood the meaning of the signs she was taught. She performed them based on cues. Not once had koko in her life held an actual conversation with a human, it's simply not possible.
This is awesome. Could you imagine if Koko was able to birth children and SHE would be able to teach them how to sign? Then so on and so on creating specific dialects.
@@gayvagina7353 No, she didnt. She was taught to make signs with her hands based on vocal cues or other signals. But she never understood the meaning of them. A gorilla is not capable of communicating through language and holding an intelligent discussion with a human. The part at the end where she makes out a sentence "humans bad, save the earth," is a collection of clips just edited together. Koko doesnt know what she's saying.
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Animals are not that dumb, I talk to my pets all the time and in their own way they talk too. This is just an example that they can learn foreign languages too. That last part made me cry.
no one said they were dumb, but you have to be dumb yourself to believe koko actually learned a foreign language. She performed signs based on cues. That is all. She never understood the meaning behind the signs, and she certainly could not make sentences out of them. That is why the video is edited so many times when she is saying man dumb, fix earth.
@@molamolamola5588 Simple things such as seeing an apple and being able to make the sign for 'apple' do not constitute an understanding of communicating through language. She is not capable of making a string of signs that forms the sentence "I like apples because they are juicy and crunchy." Unless she is specifically taught how to do that, even if you taught her each individual sign to form that sentence she would not know how to put them together, because she simply knows what sign correlates to what cue. She can not communicate with our language. The signs are simply like a dog learning "sit" for a treat, there is nothing more to this.
I watched that girl grow up. Tho Michael was a sweetie, sad for his loss, loosing Koko was like loosing a member of my family. I've had many animals, I've a dog still @ 76, & I wish people would realize that they aren't just an 'animal'.....they would do quite well on this planet without us humans. I doubt we could do well without them.....obviously we haven't taken proper care of earth. Yet, animals, without our interference, did just fine b4 we came along. We've much to learn from animals, not just about them. HUGS2U ❤️
Many of us seem to forget that people are ‘animals’, too. Our existence is just more complicated with modern creations, but our raw, simple emotions aren’t any more sophisticated than other animals. Yes, we have complicated lives with work and entertainment, but don’t the so-called ‘lower’ animals lead complicated lives, too? Every day they must struggle for survival, hunt for their food, protect their young, build nests to shelter in, and imagine how critical every single choice is that they make. Surely it is miraculous that these other animals continue to survive despite our ‘intervention’ in their world, not because of it. The purity of their existence is enviable in many ways, and their intelligence is staggering.
that's crazy how Michael shared about his mother. These creatures are amazing. I've been a Koko fan my whole life. I love her. She's in heaven now. I hope she met my family. I really do. I hope Michael and his mom are together forever.
Lying to blame someone else also requires the cognitive ability to figure out who you want to blame. Isn’t the person that Koko blamed the same one she didn’t care for earlier and who she called a “toilet”? That’s pretty funny! It reminds me of some spiteful girls I knew growing up. 😂
my cat basically went into the neighbors who also had a cat’s house and manage to find where the cat food was based on where the cat food in my house was.
Man I love this gorilla. Ever since I was a kid, I loved primates. Props to Francine Patterson for teaching this amazing gorilla to communicate. It’s awesome to see animals that have common ancestors to us behave so human-like. It really shakes up my perception of consciousness and animal intelligence
@@xtrellahh What I figuree it meant was that the saying "Nature knows all" would come into play. Ehat I mean is that they know what man kind is doing but they really can't do much about it.
it would be amazing if koko had a bunch of baby gorillas and was able to teach them all sign language so there would be a lot of gorillas knowing sign language
Chimpanzees who were taught sign language then released into a chimp sanctuary did teach it to the wild chimps. The amazing thing is that with words, the level of violence went down in the whole community because they could say what was bothering them and work things out. I found that amazing.
@@ashketchum3445 I'm pretty sure you could just Google search "smart chimpanzees released into the wild" and it should show up. (Along with a couple other studies..) google is truly man's best friend.
So when a monkey says "Ooh Ooh Ah Ah" and throws sign at people, they think it's REMARKABLE and AWESOME but when I do it, they call me an IDIOT and HOW DID YOU GET OUT OF PRISON. So unfair >:(
I believed Koko really learned sign language. And even if she’s a gorilla, they are not dumb animals, and it would certainly not be out of the question for them to learn sign language.
I always wanted to meet Koko and she made me smile so much, I cried so much when I found out she passed away. Rest in peace Koko, I hope my cat (Loki) is keeping you good company.❤
No, this work couldn't even be called a study. It was Penny pretending Koko could communicate ONLY through her interpretations of what Koko was "saying." Koko was completely unable to actually communicate with anyone without Penny present because Koko couldn't communicate.
@@linamarie84Um, no, they didn't. Every person who interviewed Koko did so with Penny acting as the interpreter because "only she understood Koko well enough to do it." Koko would use completely unrelated words and Penny would claim she was making "rhymes" which can't even exist in sign language, or she meant so sign something similar so it was "a spelling error." Penny refused to release her documentary tapes to other researchers so that they could verify if Koko could in fact understand what Penny claimed she could. No independent studies were able to verify any of Penny's claims.
As a hearing individual who speaks American Sign Language, I personally wish I could have had a chat with Koko. I feel like it would have been a wonderful experience.
I had a Yorkie that understood some signs. My husband could say the dogs name. Then sign what he wanted, the dog would do it. I told the dog the cup of water was for him. He was in the back seat of the car and I heard the plastic lid and looked he was getting the lid open to get the drink out of it. He was the single smartest dog I’ve ever owned. We took him everywhere with us. I even had a purse to carry him in.
The short term memory of a gorilla is something almost unbelievable. They can almost photographically remember complex patterns at just a glance. Absolutely amazing.
"Humans Stupid, reject Humanity, return to Monke and save Earth"
- Koko the Gorilla
No she said “you toilet” and that’s worse
@@Blackhole_T618 true.
Fix earth
CHANGE DA WORLD, MY FINAL MESSAGE. GOODBYE.
@@JC_Stone thats close to koko’s last message to humanity
"But man stupid..." You are not wrong Koko, you are not wrong. May she rest in peace.
Well said.
We have a responsibility to all life forms. We are the keepers of this beautiful planet and all life on earth. It's sad we are in such a rush to destroy it.
@@lovelyc1525 Sad but true
We were the ugly hairless apes that got kicked out of trees and started walking up right to optimize hunting for food.
I am your 420th like SwiftY-KD
Everyone a gangsta until Koko calls you a toilet
Thanks For The Likes :)
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Poor KoKo! She experienced so many deaths of loved ones. She was compassionate and had a sense of humor. God bless her.
Let's appreciate the teachers of Koko. They teach her for 46 years
life commitment
That’s 46 years of her natural life in the jungle lost. Stop making up fake diagnoses for research .
@@leegonzalez4644 chill
@@leegonzalez4644 46 years assuming she would have lived that long exposed to nature. By that logic she could have easily been poached before reaching that age. She seemed happy and helped a lot with bringing up gorilla awareness.
Being in "class" for 8.5 hours a day is no way for a gorilla to live. It is not natural and only done to fulfill the sick curiosity of humans. I do not appreciate that at all.
I can’t believe this video forgot to mention that Koko once broke a sink and then blamed it on All-Ball
that is the sweetest thing ive ever heard
or that she specifically asked to meet mr roger while watching his show and when she met him she kept singing "love"
Haha yes
All-Ball just sitting their like, "wtf?"
Omg, I've never heard that 😆🤣🤣
That main woman teacher grew old with koko. Such determination.
She's beautiful
Not main woman, god damn Dr. Francine "Penny" Patterson. A legend
She must have mourned Koko like she lost a close friend.
11:55 Poor Michael, telling what happened to his mom broke my heart😭
@@adityathakur7447 There's Koko & Michael both Gorilla's are featured in this..
@@adityathakur7447 11:47 watch here it's Micheal's story
Yeah that was definitely heartbreaking. You completely understood the point he was trying to get across. It must of been horrifying for him. They call him an animal but the barbarism of some people tells a different story😭
I visited Coco when I was 17. We hired a sign language interpreter just to have a five-minute talk. It was one of the high points of my childhood.
Update... 3 years later. If you want to know what my experience was like, read the earliest comments and responses, and you will have your answer. Because I'm getting sick of explaining it to you people! I appreciate your curiosity cause I would be too, but... The sheer fact that I have to try to explain it to morons who obviously can't read almost on a daily basis. It's quite frankly ruining and tainting my memory of the experience. So if school hasn't failed you and you're not a moron, maybe you should look in the earliest comments and responses, and you will have your answers..... Thank you, and have a wonderful life.
The Management...
17 years old isn't a child haha
@@georgekurgansky5986 ikr lol
Its koko not coco
@@georgekurgansky5986 You must be 17 or younger...
It's certainly not adulthood so what would you call it? In fact, in many cases 18 isn't adulthood either and neither is 21. Adulthood is attained through life experience and occurs at different times for different people. For example, I wouldn't consider myself having attained adulthood until I moved out on my own at age 22. I certainly wasn't an adult at 17 and therefore was pretty much a child.
@@j800r_aswell umm it's already considered a teen lmao
I remember KOKO, the day she was told the cat died. She cried all night. She was self aware. In the words of Koko , Nature sees us.
Aww
But, She can’t cry. She wasn’t able to
@@user-jo7gu1vp6x yeah they can't cry tears but she cry like a dog does, with her mouth. 👍
How they cried
Nature sees us and will correct the cancer of us.
Imagine being the first human to be knowingly insulted by a gorilla
Edit: WOW THIS BLEW UP DANG
Imagine being the first ape to call a human stupid?
Finally we got the message without waiting for ET to tell us we are indeed stupid.
Thats quite an accomplishment
@@IDF-Terrrorist-Organisation thats why human stupid 🙄
@@Lemon7reeProductions what! I did not get it
@@IDF-Terrrorist-Organisation 🙂
I cried through this entire video. Poor Michael. Poor All Ball. Sweet koko...
Koko has better jokes than the person who wrote the jokes in this video.
True chiz though
The neigh one kinda made me crack a smile sounded exactly like something my dad would say
And the writer still has the terrible taste to joke (and put happy music) while Michael explained his mother gruesome and brutal death.
Agreed.... at some point it was just like- stop man, it’s not funny
the one about florida wasnt a joke
"Man koko love, but man stupid"
-Koko
Yes
So very true.
Yeah, Koko love nature, Koko love man and man stupid.
Yeah man destroy nature.
well she's not wrong.
My family (I was kinda in it) taught my dog to say 4 words and those words were “I love you to” but she didn’t do sign language she used the words while howling she could only use those words while my family were acting like husky’s it sounded like “I LOVE you!” But the dog said “I LOVE YOU TO...~” she treated me like a son She is the best!
Kokos last message
"Koko love man , but man stupid"
RIP KOKO ♥️
😭
@Michael Schmeltz part of it
@Michael Schmeltz oh fr?
Koko roasted humanity in her last moments, respect👏
Such a smart gorilla
I remember when Koko died. My heart still breaks for Francine. She dedicated her entire life to Koko, understanding that to have a child would forever come between her and Koko.
Every dumbass on earth can have its own fuckstain, but how many can be proud of such revolutionary research in interspecies communication?
No animal is stupid. They all speak their own language. Its not their fault we don't understand them. Every animal understands feelings and body language. Its truly amazing Koko learned sign language and was able to express feelings. She always had those feelings just no way to explain them to people. Love is what did this patience love and the heart will always speak.
No, man stupid
@@amadomasr man,big,stupid.
You clearly never hunted deer or had pet lizards
Not language but communicate
@@radexyz-fx8ix they are sentient beings, even if you don’t understand what they express. I’ve been with both of those animals and they shouldn’t be seen any differently
I cried when I found out Koko passed away. She was such an unique character. The world is less bright without her. Rest in peace Koko.
She is only the first....
I bet more apes are learning to communicate especially now with computers, tablets and AI
which have benefits (a supreme ability to be patient and ability to understand subtle nuisance expressed).
Yes once Apes learn to Google SEARCH....we could see even more amazing extensions of intelligent behaviour.
RIP
Same
R.I.P koko we love you
Do not mourn. Though her body is long since dead, her spirit lives on in our memories, immortalized by the greatness of her accomplishments!
Koko being a cat lover is one of the best things I've ever learned. So so sad that she had to say goodbye prematurely.
I think she had a pretty average life span for a gorilla. I'm no expert, but I think they live to be about 40 or 50?
@@xoxo62477 I'm quite sure his comment was referring to the cat's premature death not Koko's....
Yes, very sad... 😢
All Ball should not have been let outside. (Jan Griffiths).
Also I read the same book Kokos Kitten at school last friday
The part where Koko was describing what happened to her mother made me tear up. Bless Koko and RIP!
It was Mike not Koko
We are collectively responsible for that.
That was Michael
I bet Koko would know how to put the mask over her nose.
Roasting Karens below medium rare ehh
LOL nice one
Ives seen dogs do it
@Rebecca G lol
Indeed
Koko was a hero among hero’s. Robin William had a very happy look about him. Koko knew robin had sadness in him. Keep these themes coming
I know I think that’s amazing
We don't know if Koko knew Robin Williams was sad us humans didn't even know.
11:57 : Michael telling the story of her mother brutally dying
The backround music: happy children songs
Squash meat gorilla
@@steakzy9302 mouth tooth
Why doe?
“La, la, la, la, la.. she’s dead..”
@@Kamii.1g cry sharp noise loud
Lovely piece on Coco. Sad to hear that her whole life was in captivity, caged for research. She was a big hearted being. Thank you Coco for all the love and wisdom you shared.
Koko with a k
But in the wild a human probably would have shot and killed her. So in my eyes she had a happy and safe life.
@@edwardmcintyre3708 So if this were you, likely to die in a car accident, you would prefer living in a cage for your whole life? Mostly without other humans? Your idea of a happy and safe life?
Really it is much kinder and more ethical to study unobtrusively, in nature, and work in the community to educate and protect like Jane Goodall.
@@jennifera4350 you must be a Karen. I bet you support P.E.T.A. People Eat Tiny Animals. Is that what P.E.T.A means? You Karen.
@@edwardmcintyre3708 Clearly you have less compassion and much less intelligence than the gorilla Koko!
"Koko's IQ is 85, average humans is 100 this makes her more smarter than most people in Florida" 😂😂😂
Lol I laughed so much lol
actually smarter than my coworkers in california
my coworkers have lower IQ than koko, in fact if california didn't lie about their actual average IQ a vegetable can beat them outright.
After hearing this I came here😂😂
Or Mexico🇲🇽??
She is smarter than Justin Bieber
Just imagine the pain of not being able to cry and losing your pet and friend
@BaNiQueen *babies
Friends* Michael & Robin Williams
1q
But she doesnt need to cry because gorillas just dont do that, so it shouldnt be a problem for her that she cant cry.
I wish she had that baby so we could carry this on and eventually introduce some more rescues and really understand them
@@HendreLabuschagne there is no best species
@TriHard 7 wtf
@@nugget6093 you a gundam fan?
Koko was an amazing animal, she brought us closer to communicating with animals. I hope we have more animals like her in the future.
Michaels story of his mother broke my heart, he remembers exactly what happened how tragic :(
I couldn't stop crying from that one, OMG . . . ! ! ! 😭 We call animals 'beasts', but it is we humans who are truly barbaric - to one another, to the animals, and to our environment.
It’s too sad...
Mich!els story made me hate poachers even more .. they are some of the worse cold blooded monsters in the world .. to bad Michael wasn't able to get his revenge on them .. i hope there is at least a special place waiting for them in hell .. R.I.P Michael you are truly missed on earth and i know you are getting all your mothers hugs in heaven now and from your best friend koko too .. 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭❤
His story is so sad. That he could remember what happened to his mother and describe it is incredible, very sad that we as an intelligent species is still capable of such cruelty not only to other animals but to our own species as well. We still haven't learned from our past mistakes and judging from how we are going so far this year we aren't going to any time soon.
That's why the most dangerous beings in this planet is not some creatures or animals but humans
She learned how to communicate at such young age
And it took me 5 years to actually talk
(Yes indeed, this comment is really deep, If you cant get it, it means MONKE IS VERY SUPERIOR)
What???
@@luistalastas4169 just “deep” and “meaningful” bullshit
Lol humans can
OMG SO FUNNY HAHA
It's haven't
Penny's patience and perseverance in training Koko is out of this world.
Well, she probably had a lot of fun doing it, not much patience is needed when you're enjoying it
@@youtubesucks1821also you know, the whole being paid thing. As well as academic respect.
@@TheNiplesslyNippled I don't care how much money you give me, I'm not getting in a cage with a Gorilla. Sure she was probably paid, but it's very ignorant to assume that's why she did it
@youtubesucks1821 facts like people really think EVERYONE is miserable at their job or career etc like hello some people genuinely love what they do and have fun with it lol
@@TheNiplesslyNippledyes, koko became her life. So it was more than pay
15:43 Koko mourning to Mr. Robin William death who she met only once.
man i cried my eyes out, we humans are nothing compared this beautiful animals.
That was an amazing story, goes to show how animals are more intelligent than we think x
Some not All
It is racist
Well primates are our closest relatives so it's not pretty hard for them to know things that most humans know. I mean I don't even know ASL.
@@Nameless82284 we are literally primates
@@boyskissing I know that, when I said primates I meant apes, monkeys, and lemurs.
Girl: my baby died..
Chimpanzee: *sad, anyways*
*give hug. NOW*
Plot twist he.was happy
@@Zefpyhr Koko was a girl
@@Vxllain
Yep, she *was*, now he *is* a boy.
@@clashoclan3371
What?
Im confuse????
English is not my first language so sorry
awww
Awwwww
*A W W*
awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Lots of kittens 😍
Verified!
A few weeks later Dr. Patterson gave Koko a little gray kitten. Koko picked up the kitten very carefully and caressed it gently. When asked what she was going to call it, she signed "All Ball" perhaps she gave it this name because Koko have no tail. Without a tail it look like a ball of fur. koko carried All ball around on her back. The kitten clutch Koko's fur, the way baby gorillas do with their mothers. Koko love to plays with All ball the two became close friend one day All ball was hit by a car died. For days afterward Koko miserable over the loss of her friend. Koko recover her good spirit when Dr. Patterson gave her another kitten to replace All ball.
That cat story sounds like a cruel and u unusual study... all ball was taken away or killed by these scientists to study her emotional tendencies and intellectual awareness
@@hosannahosanna2719 yep, despite how they try to advertise this as a pure story of an exceptionally human like gorilla, there's a reason she is the way she is and it's because of them fucking with her like that. essentially FORCING them to evolve emotionally.
ALL-BALL is such a metal nane
@@hosannahosanna2719 All Ball was run over by a car.
If the kitten was part of the program, how did it end up outside unattended to be hit by a car?
Something doesn’t add up…
I remember hearing Koko passed. How sad, but blessed we were to have her. She taught humans how to be human. And Michael describing how he watched his mother butchered, ouch!! Ppl can be EVIL!
"But man stupid" Indeed Koko, indeed.
Koko was right; people are stupid!
and my generation gen z are the future and we are idiots and I am embarrassed to be part of this generation
@@darraghclarke1096 ain’t that the truth. I’m embarrassed to be apart of the human race when I see what we do to each other and Mother Earth. Example: China dumps so much raw sewage in the ocean it can be seen from space.
@@robertrazo7352 didn't know that and gen z is out of control
For me, there is no doubt that animals have emotions. They know love and grief. I had two cats, Toby and Teddy, that were brothers and it seemed to me that they loved each other, always curling up together, sleeping together and licking each others heads, playing, etc. When Toby died I put him in a box and covered him with a towel before burying him. I wanted Teddy to know his brother had died so he would not wonder and look for him later, so I put him by Toby's box. Teddy sniffed a bit, then climbed into the box and laid on top of his dead brother while he made weak, coarse meows for an hour. It was an eerie sound I had never heard before. When I couldn't take it any more I went to take Teddy out of the box. He hissed at me. In 19 years Teddy had never once hissed, even when I gave him a bath or he got shots at the vet. I cried because I knew the meows and hissing were Teddies cries for his brother. I cried more for Teddy's loss than I did for my own. He eventually came to sit in my lap, and was especially insistent on hugs, and excessively licked my face and hands. He did not eat for two days. He would sometimes sit very still and make those same eerie sounds before going to sleep. If that is not grief, I don't know what is.
Eventually Teddy returned to being himself. He died two years later and was buried next to his brother Toby, separated only by a bag of cat treats and a fuzzy mouse.
Sorry for your loss. That's a really sweet story tho 💖💖
Reject humanity, embrace animals
Honestly, if humans have emotions I'm sure animals have as well
I thought it was obvious animals had feelings it was just things at the intelligence level of like snakes or somthin dont
No offense, but I hope you washed your hands after all the licking. He was snuggling up to a corpse before that
Koko:gets a kitten and calls it all ball
Me: awwww
Kitten:tragedy
Koko:signs sad emotions
Me: *actualy crying because a gorrila showed more emotions than some people i know*
Same
The fact that Koko named her cat ALL BALL, and understand eye brows rymes with brows has convinced me that Koko is a natural rapper
Robin Williams playing with Koko a giant gorilla is the most wholesome thing I’ve ever seen. I hope that wherever they are they can see one another. Also this looks like it was filmed on the set of trailer park boys.
The video of her and mr Rogers are even better.
I believe it was the only time Robin Williams seem to have left this world while simultaneously stayed in the world. It was pure and only others who have even for a minute have left earth while never going anywhere will understand what that means.
They both had big hearts.
Frig off Barb
The fact that she could show emotions and Michael remembered his moms death means that they are closer to humans and like humans animals too deserve to live and not killed
We was a primate before evolution. We are the great great great grandparents of primates I think
@@lysergic4169 Grandparents? Hell no. Grandchildren if anything, and that goes back millions of years anyway. Modern primates are our close cousins (species-wise).
@@mateuszjokiel2813 more like cousins because we have the Same ancestors but then evolved separatly
@@mrursus112 Yeah, like I said, close cousins.
We evolved from primates so it makes senses that they will show some human emotions, other animals like snakes, frogs or deers ? Not so much.
In these 24 minutes I’ve come to love Koko and legit cried when you said she died
You truly are a man of respect
Myself too...I felt connected and sad for Kokos passing.
May monke go to heaven
people doubting that animals can feel emotions like joy and grief clearly have never had a functioning relation to pets
No
One thing I learned in this video was that Michael and Koko could paint. The fact that Michael CHOSE the black and white paint to create a picture of Apple the dog blows my mind. Truly amazing.
Hi
yeah I know.. if pause the video on the painting and look very carefully. almost look like a head of Apple. i can see the noise, the ears of a dog and the markings of Apple furr too.
It's quite clear, I did not waste these 24mins of my life. This video was really educational and eye opening. I can't look the world the same as I used to.
Me too
me trying to justify my procastination
@@rod1840 LMFAOOOO
You should because the gorilla could never actually talk
@@fishwoz17 are you saying humans who only use sign language arent talking? it is a different form of communication but still talking.
Koko played a joke on her trainer, calling a white towel "red". When the trainer asked Koko to show her the red, she pointed to small red piece of lint!!
"But Man Stupid." 🤣Who knew gorillas could be philosophical comedians.
Just the fact that Koko knew to hide under the cover and the fact that they were playing hide and seek in the first place is already so amazing
So no one is going to talk abt how he called Africa a country
Its the fact I didn’t realize till I saw your comment for me 💀
Do you miss 2020?
@@fabuma 2020😳 I have decided to pretend it doesn't exist
12:20
I realized exactly when he said it
In response to the question about her recognizing Robin Williams, I believe she did. Koko is one of the few animals to pass the mirror test . The mirror test, for those who don't know, is a test to see if an animal can recognize their reflection and since she knows what a picture it I believe it is fair to say that she recognized Robin on the movie cover.
But what's so sad. Koko can pass the mirror text whereas some humans can not. Now that's something to worry about. A Gorilla smarter than some humans. Dame!
I totally agree!
@JohnBrown-hl4cy A walnut is more intelligent than some humans.
What a super sweet soul Koko is. Such a sweetheart, wish I could’ve met her. ❤❤❤
I’ve heard Koko once broke a sink and blamed it on her kitten! 😂
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lol
😂
Haha
the other gorilla once broke Kokos favorite toy and she called him a toilet something😂
I'm in love with the Koko 😂
Yeah seems like gorilla gf is better than human gf
@@Wa1tablack 🤣😂😂🎉🤣✌️
HALF APE BABIES
@@dreshawnwoodard1440 wait my stupid brain realized after a whole month you were meaning the am in love with the coco(cocaine) song😂😂🤣
@@Wa1tablack you're not stupid and I believe that your highly intelligent. It's all good on this end.
It'd probably be a good thing if we taught more gorillas among other apes how to talk to us, that way they could communicate to us their thoughts and feelings, as well as, over time, get the general population to think of them more highly.
Yeah! If we kept teaching them. We could even communicate as normal.monkeys to humans!
That would mean that we have to learn a new language, sign language, if we want to communicate with them. (If this ever happens.)
@@Angelica-cj5wf Personally, I think a universal sign language would be super useful not only for talking to gorillas, but other people.
@@Ivy-dd8bf Yup, I agree. (I don't think I need to say more.)
That's how to get planet of the apes
I wasn’t sad when they said koko died. The amount she was able to accomplish and prove was more than a lot of humans. In her 40 years I think she had more of a life than a lot of us. What an awesome story.
I use to feel like a clown everytime I saw kids younger than me being talented and smart. Now I feel even more clownish that koko is smarter than me.
School made you stupid dont feel sad
@TGM He's pretty stupid to think a gorilla is smarter than him. Koko was a scam, she never understood the meaning of the signs she was taught. She performed them based on cues. Not once had koko in her life held an actual conversation with a human, it's simply not possible.
@@yuunpaan580 you must be fun at parties
@@cr0sad3r70 yes, i am. I dont consider a youtube comments section about a fake talking gorilla to be a party so i'm not obligated to be fun here.
@@yuunpaan580 you must be everyone’s fav friend huh
This is awesome. Could you imagine if Koko was able to birth children and SHE would be able to teach them how to sign? Then so on and so on creating specific dialects.
Yes imagine like 8 generations later, it would be amazing
Sh!t this is how the Planet of The Apes reality begins.
I can imagine that sure, but it would be pure fiction, considering koko didnt actually understand sign language.
@@yuunpaan580 yes she did.
@@gayvagina7353 No, she didnt. She was taught to make signs with her hands based on vocal cues or other signals. But she never understood the meaning of them. A gorilla is not capable of communicating through language and holding an intelligent discussion with a human. The part at the end where she makes out a sentence "humans bad, save the earth," is a collection of clips just edited together. Koko doesnt know what she's saying.
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True, especially the Hollywood people
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Well maybe. But then again we don't kill the children of women we date. Like lions.
Our most stupidity is we think we are smart
Let's never forget Koko. She taught us many things. She is missed. RIP Koko
Rip Koko and Mike. Beautiful smart loving souls. I'm sure Koko and Robin Williams (and Mike) have revisited in heaven. ❤🐵
RIP Harambe
Did you just..
Disrespect Hurambe?
FBI OPEN UP
Michael*
And Apple and Ball.
Animals are not that dumb, I talk to my pets all the time and in their own way they talk too. This is just an example that they can learn foreign languages too.
That last part made me cry.
Cats meow cause we speaking to them
My cats sing whenever i sing
no one said they were dumb, but you have to be dumb yourself to believe koko actually learned a foreign language. She performed signs based on cues. That is all. She never understood the meaning behind the signs, and she certainly could not make sentences out of them. That is why the video is edited so many times when she is saying man dumb, fix earth.
@@yuunpaan580 sign for Apple she dont understand Apple?
@@molamolamola5588 Simple things such as seeing an apple and being able to make the sign for 'apple' do not constitute an understanding of communicating through language. She is not capable of making a string of signs that forms the sentence "I like apples because they are juicy and crunchy." Unless she is specifically taught how to do that, even if you taught her each individual sign to form that sentence she would not know how to put them together, because she simply knows what sign correlates to what cue. She can not communicate with our language. The signs are simply like a dog learning "sit" for a treat, there is nothing more to this.
Imagine being the child of Koko's owner and loving Koko for the rest of your life coz u were born with her. And u loved gorillas. Bruh
Just stfu
wat
What
Koko human koko have no owner
Wtf. I think you were raised by apes because that english was not understandable in the slightest.
What Koko and Micheal taught the world is that in reality humans really are stupid!!! Koko wasn’t wrong
RIP precious ones
People around koko had so much patience for her... Thats why koko learned a lot from them... Rip koko
I feel like if koko had a child, the child would have a chance to be smarter than koko herself
Donald
Monke
Chocolate
That’s ok probably why they didn’t allow her to
@@portcitymobbin1247 what IF...
Koko got into Stanford and most humans can't smh
I watched that girl grow up. Tho Michael was a sweetie, sad for his loss, loosing Koko was like loosing a member of my family. I've had many animals, I've a dog still @ 76, & I wish people would realize that they aren't just an 'animal'.....they would do quite well on this planet without us humans. I doubt we could do well without them.....obviously we haven't taken proper care of earth. Yet, animals, without our interference, did just fine b4 we came along.
We've much to learn from animals, not just about them.
HUGS2U ❤️
Many of us seem to forget that people are ‘animals’, too. Our existence is just more complicated with modern creations, but our raw, simple emotions aren’t any more sophisticated than other animals. Yes, we have complicated lives with work and entertainment, but don’t the so-called ‘lower’ animals lead complicated lives, too? Every day they must struggle for survival, hunt for their food, protect their young, build nests to shelter in, and imagine how critical every single choice is that they make. Surely it is miraculous that these other animals continue to survive despite our ‘intervention’ in their world, not because of it. The purity of their existence is enviable in many ways, and their intelligence is staggering.
@@EffieG-ez9tf very well said ❤️!
that's crazy how Michael shared about his mother. These creatures are amazing. I've been a Koko fan my whole life. I love her. She's in heaven now. I hope she met my family. I really do. I hope Michael and his mom are together forever.
Trying to put the blame on another is a sign of guilt, which is also an emotion once considered uniquely human. Fascinating video. Thanks for posting!
Wow I never noticed that but you're right good eye
Lying to blame someone else also requires the cognitive ability to figure out who you want to blame. Isn’t the person that Koko blamed the same one she didn’t care for earlier and who she called a “toilet”? That’s pretty funny! It reminds me of some spiteful girls I knew growing up. 😂
my cat basically went into the neighbors who also had a cat’s house and manage to find where the cat food was based on where the cat food in my house was.
Do you know why we are so amazed when animals are smart? Because we like to assume that they are stupid.
I read about a cat who used to go out his cat door at night and go in the cat doors of other cats to steal toys.
Man I love this gorilla. Ever since I was a kid, I loved primates. Props to Francine Patterson for teaching this amazing gorilla to communicate. It’s awesome to see animals that have common ancestors to us behave so human-like. It really shakes up my perception of consciousness and animal intelligence
"nature sees you" that was powerful. I was moved.
@L J Are you serious or are you joking?
@L J When you look into the abyss, The abyss looks back into you
Kinda scary
@@ClassicOshaViolation well we dont know exactly what she means by it
@@xtrellahh What I figuree it meant was that the saying "Nature knows all" would come into play. Ehat I mean is that they know what man kind is doing but they really can't do much about it.
Rip koko :(
1971-2018
Dang she passed so early because I thought she passed away along time ago. But what a good life she had from 1971-2018. Rip.
Robin Williams 💔 damn man even Koko remembered him and loved him 13 years after they met ONCE. Wow what a human ❤️
it would be amazing if koko had a bunch of baby gorillas and was able to teach them all sign language so there would be a lot of gorillas knowing sign language
saddest thing was that after finally getting pregnant she miscarried 😢. I know Koko's story, she wanted kids soo bad
I wonder if she came across other gorillas and tried signing with them 😂 theyd be like wth you doing
Chimpanzees who were taught sign language then released into a chimp sanctuary did teach it to the wild chimps. The amazing thing is that with words, the level of violence went down in the whole community because they could say what was bothering them and work things out. I found that amazing.
@@frankG335 WHAT!? Ok thats incredible..... i really didnt expect even them to be able to teach it...wow
@@frankG335 Imagine releasing a group of sign savvy primates in the wild, and the wild primates are like “huh?”
@@frankG335 Where did you learn about the study and where can I learn more about it?
@@ashketchum3445 I'm pretty sure you could just Google search "smart chimpanzees released into the wild" and it should show up. (Along with a couple other studies..) google is truly man's best friend.
KoKo was a legend..May she rest in peace.
Koko is a legend
@@elijahrodda7774 yess
Just know that Koko and Michael are in heaven waiting for all of us
So when a monkey says "Ooh Ooh Ah Ah" and throws sign at people, they think it's REMARKABLE and AWESOME but when I do it, they call me an IDIOT and HOW DID YOU GET OUT OF PRISON. So unfair >:(
Would you like to become a monkey instead? 😆
Lol Seriously
"Reject humanity, become Monke."
it is what it is
Ikr!!! Smh my head
How did koko the concept of death and know sadness and crying comes with it? This is mind blowing.
Any animal with a brain has thoughts and emotions, they just express them in ways we don't always recognize.
Truth
as someone who lives in florida, that joke “smarter than most people living in florida” made me laugh out loud
You should see the film *Miss Peregrine's School for Peculiar Children* . When the main bad guy complains about Florida, I was dying!
they're always roasting us lmaoo
The kitty was like "this is one hairy human"
The fact that Koko could tell the lady about her mother dying , just shows how intelligent she really was .
that was her mate Michael, not Koko ... and he died way too early age 27 from heart failure 😢
Okay but that one gorilla saying what happened to his mother is super sad
Edit: aww koko had a cat but it’s extremely sad that it’s gone :(
Her asking for a cat for Christmas melts my heart ❤ awe she so amazing felt bad when she was sad about loosing her cat
Me 2 , tre made me realise once again the beauty of the animal KINGDOM and the ugliness of mankind .
7 months later I'm watching this again poor koko 🦍🦍❤ lol Mike blaming koko for the rip jacket lol
I believed Koko really learned sign language. And even if she’s a gorilla, they are not dumb animals, and it would certainly not be out of the question for them to learn sign language.
I remember Koko. Video of her won the hearts of anyone who saw them. The fact that she wanted a pet of her own to love says everything.
I just realized that the Apple Chase painting's shape kinda resembles the dog too.
It does!
Why are you criticising hans the horse atleast he was that smart
*S T A N*
Whos doing that-
man all the trauma Koko went through from his/ her cat dying to Robin Williams dying to his/ her mother dying
Koko is le femme
@@officalkingkrab1912 vraie
his/her mother?
You know thats a MOTHER right
@@walkinginthalobby what? I think you misunderstood
@@KungFuKendrick wdym
I always wanted to meet Koko and she made me smile so much, I cried so much when I found out she passed away. Rest in peace Koko, I hope my cat (Loki) is keeping you good company.❤
Love how people were trying to discredit this studies importance, this was revolutionary at the time and pushed research forward in a major way
Some people saw koko as a threat because she was so smart very sad indeed we learned so much from her.
@Janice Spiak
it's sad. She was smarter then quite a few humans. She wasn't a threat.
No, this work couldn't even be called a study. It was Penny pretending Koko could communicate ONLY through her interpretations of what Koko was "saying." Koko was completely unable to actually communicate with anyone without Penny present because Koko couldn't communicate.
@@TruthFictionUmmm..yea..they did bring other interpreters..
@@linamarie84Um, no, they didn't. Every person who interviewed Koko did so with Penny acting as the interpreter because "only she understood Koko well enough to do it." Koko would use completely unrelated words and Penny would claim she was making "rhymes" which can't even exist in sign language, or she meant so sign something similar so it was "a spelling error." Penny refused to release her documentary tapes to other researchers so that they could verify if Koko could in fact understand what Penny claimed she could. No independent studies were able to verify any of Penny's claims.
Koco was the most human of us all. It's sad she is gone
I was severely impressed when she made up the browse sign
As a hearing individual who speaks American Sign Language, I personally wish I could have had a chat with Koko. I feel like it would have been a wonderful experience.
I had a Yorkie that understood some signs. My husband could say the dogs name. Then sign what he wanted, the dog would do it. I told the dog the cup of water was for him. He was in the back seat of the car and I heard the plastic lid and looked he was getting the lid open to get the drink out of it. He was the single smartest dog I’ve ever owned. We took him everywhere with us. I even had a purse to carry him in.
Koko is actually a human but they cant download the model files because they're out of storage space
dude seeing this at 3 in the morning is really trippy
The short term memory of a gorilla is something almost unbelievable. They can almost photographically remember complex patterns at just a glance. Absolutely amazing.