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The Gorilla Foundation
URL: http://www.koko.org/

Description:
This site, dedicated to Koko the signing gorilla, includes general information on gorillas, links to other primate sites, videos of Koko and her friends, a children's section with photographs of Koko as a baby, and the first chapters of Francine Patterson's book about how Koko was taught to communicate in American Sign Language (ASL). The Gorilla Foundation studies interspecies communication and works to save gorillas from extinction.

Publisher:
The Gorilla Foundation

Library of Congress Subject Headings:
Gorilla
Human-animal communication
Koko (Gorilla)
LII classic content
People
Sign language

LII Database Information:
Record 12338 created by Marcia Coudyser on 12/06/1999
Last modification on 08/19/2004
Published: 12/06/1999  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/12338