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What, no ''hand-to-nose, then-palm-thrust-out''

Posted by Manstuprator on 2025-September-9 06:48:35, Tuesday
In reply to Koko chimp posted by Koko the Signing BL Chimp on 2025-September-9 00:30:01, Tuesday



... for the heads-up regarding species?
Koko would sign "thank you" using a specific gesture that involved touching her nose with one hand and then extending her open palm forward. This gesture is a recognized sign for "thank you" in the American Sign Language (ASL) (or at least a version of it that she was taught).

Here's how the sign is described:
1. Place your hand to your nose:
This part of the sign is similar to how one might touch their nose if they were thinking.

2. Extend your hand forward:
After touching your nose, you then extend your open hand away from your face, as if to offer something or to send your gratitude out to someone else.
Make up your mind. Either you're a chimp or a gorilla. And get your sex straight, too! Or did you go all "tranny"?

M.
Can't be both...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Koko (gorilla)
Species Western gorilla
Sex Female
Born July 4, 1971[1]
San Francisco Zoo, U.S.
Died
June 19, 2018 (aged 46)
The Gorilla Foundation, Woodside, California, U.S.
Resting place
The Gorilla Foundation
Known for
Use of sign language
Pet keeping
Intelligence
Website:
www.koko.org

Hanabiko, nicknamed "Koko" (July 4, 1971 – June 19, 2018) was a female western lowland gorilla born in the San Francisco Zoo[2] and cross-fostered by Francine Patterson for use in ape language experiments. Koko gained public attention as the subject of two National Geographic cover stories and, in 1985, the best-selling children's picture book, Koko's Kitten. Koko became the world's most famous representative of her critically endangered species.

Koko's communication skills were hotly debated.[3][4][5] Koko used many signs adapted from American Sign Language, but the scientific consensus is that she did not demonstrate the syntax or grammar required of true language. Patterson has been widely criticized for misrepresenting Koko's skills, providing insufficient care for Koko and her companion gorillas, and inappropriate treatment of Gorilla Foundation staff members.

Koko's story helped to change the public image of gorillas, previously assumed to be brainless and violent.[6] After Koko's death, the journal Science published an obituary noting that she had "helped transform how the human world viewed animal emotion—and intelligence".[...]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koko_(gorilla)

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