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Everything about the Koko the gorilla sign-language story was total bullshit

submitted by Sheitstrom to whatever 1 yearApr 24, 2023 00:54:30 ago (+36/-0)     (bigthink.com)

https://bigthink.com/life/ape-sign-language/

Koko's last sign-language message was "help and protect the earth". The one before that was presumably "please keep funding sign-language studies for apes". Your Bullshit-o-meter should be at 11.

Edit: At the time, I believed the story. It didn't seem impossible. I didn't think everyone would collude to just make that shit up. Then I recently read about Koko's last "message to humanity" was to save/fix the planet. Umm...there is no way that was true. And it wasn't!


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Thanks, fren