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Koko - A Talking Gorilla
French director Barbet Schroeder's documentary focuses on Koko, a gorilla trained by scientists at Stanford University to communicate using American Sign Language. Far from animal-rights propaganda, this film asks penetrating questions about the nature of these experiments. Is Koko simply being brainwashed? Is she actually thinking with language or simply repeating learned behaviors? A thought-provoking and sobering statement on current relations between mankind, his closest relatives, and nature... 
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$22.51
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Koko: A Talking Gorilla
Penny Patterson, an American psychology student, began an experiment in primate communication in the early 1970s using a young zoo gorilla named Koko, who was loaned to Penny for the experiment. Due to a philosophical predisposition to consider that "humanizing" animals is wrong, and alarmed at the increasing publicity over the experiments, the zoo took back the gorilla, which by then had learned over three hundred signs and showed, to many observers, an almost human comprehension of her condition...
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$23.96
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Koko: A Talking Gorilla (The Criterion Collection)
Release Date: 2006-07-11, Rating: Unrated
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Koko the Gorilla Belt Buckle
Koko the Gorilla Belt is an outstanding Belt Buckle Picture. She is a 35 year-old lowland gorilla who learned to speak American Sign Language when she was just a baby.
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Koko - A Talking Gorilla - Criterion Collection (DVD)
In 1977; acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder and cinematographer Nestor Almendros entered the universe of the worlds most famous primate; to create the captivating documentary Koko: A Talking Gorilla. The film introduces us to the remarkable Koko at the age of three; recently brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experimentshe would be taught the basics of human communication through American sign language. An entertaining; troubling...
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Koko, Fine Animal Gorilla
Release Date: 2002-12-03, Audio CD, Quicksilver
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$10.03
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Koko: a Talking Gorilla
In 1977, acclaimed director Barbet Schroeder and cinematographer Nestor Almendros entered the universe of the world's most famous primate to create this captivating documentary. The film introduces us to the remarkable Koko at the age of three, recently brought from the San Francisco Zoo to Stanford University by Dr. Penny Patterson for a controversial experiment -- she would be taught the basics of human communication through American sign language. An entertaining, troubling, and still relevant...
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$21.40
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