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Show THURSDAY, APRIL 14. 1977 Gorilla Speaks Humans In Sign Language For Deaf To olds, Koko doesnt watch much television. There is none in the trailer, but Miss Patterson once took Koko to her home to watch herself on language. Koko knows about words in the American Sign Language of the deaf. She can string together as. many as a dozen signs, but like many humans tends to get repetitious in long sentences. Like any normal Koko talks, a lot, is full of mischief, tells fibs when she lias been naughty, and hates to take naps. d, 250 is not a This child hut a gorilla the first to learn and use a human a TV news program. When Koko saw herself eating a sandwich, she became very excited and signed, Koko eat. Koko craves companion- - gorilla also is The ship and cant stand being left alone. Miss Patterson often spends at least 12 hours a day with her and always when leaves a baby-sittshes not around. er The gorilla also enjoys showing off for an audience, and put on a choice performance atJheStanford press conference announcing Na tional Geographic support for the project. She climaxed the show by opening the door of a TV crews car, sitting behind the wheel, and picking up the portable telephone. Then she grabbed a pair of sunglasses from the dashboard, put them on, and pounded her chest with delight. " . 'f- . r - ' By Chrmophtr Springminn to National Geographic : Living Color Portrait to itoft MCh family as an expression of appreciation for their patronage. Yas, adults and children will be photographed free during this event Children must be accompanied by a parent Each family will raceive one individual or group portrait . f, compliments of our store.-- ' KOKO, the first gorilla to learn and use a human language, signs mask in response to a woodpecker mask. It is displayed by Francine Patterson, a graduate student at Stanford five years University who is teaching Koko the American Sign Language of the deaf. Koko, is research Miss Patterson's sponsored by the in 250 knows words old, about sign language. National Geographic Society. adopt at inventing names for objects she sees for the first time. She calls a ring a Anger bracelet, a mask an eye hat, and a stale sweet-ro- ll a cookie rock. The Reception OiOuLSoleJWas So.Greot We Ron Out Of Some Ofjhe Advertised IS A real Yankee Doodle gorilla, bom on the Fourth of July, 1971, in the San Francisco zoo. She has been learning sign language since die was a year old. Her teacher, constant companion, and great friend is Francine Patterson, a graduate student at Stanford University. The National Geographic Society recently started supporting Miss Pattersons project, continuing a tradition of sponsoring research into great apes. Koko is far from intellectual maturity, Miss Patterson explained. No one has ever studied a gorilla this closely through its years of development, breeding, and KOKO But Welve Some More Like Stt. CanvaslRatioiGhairs cmrniffntfteni das 0C& Kitchen Set G SIDED family life. Given the things she is telling us now, it would be fascinating to know whats in the mind of an adult gorilla. Cte6G&3HS0(9ifliD RIGHT NOW. Koko car. express through sign language such ideas as hap- LimitecTQuanities QjjQEBffDCD py," "smart. patient, And she is mastering time concepts and "mad. such as later, now, tomorrow, andyester-day- ; OT32Dul23S3Sb 5Q08 But well have to wait until her vocabulary expands or her sophistication about things grows before she can tell us what she QBE sumeims McCall Patterns Portrait Free At 2 Locations Albertson's Logan Fri A Sat. - April 15th - 16th Hours: 10 A.M. - 5 P.M. five-year-ol- Carl & Don's Tromonton Tuesday, April 19th TEACHING A gorilla sign language gives researchers a key to learning the level of their intelligence, which Miss Patterson thinks has been underrated. She has given Koko a variety of intelligence tests, including Qie classic Stanford-Binet,.- -, and the gorillas score ranges around 80 to 85, in the low normal range for hu- mans. This puts her about a year behind a child of the same age mentally, which is not bad, said Miss Patterson. 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When confronted with the toy and asked, What happened here, Ko- For The Seamstress 3 is giving o, m opinion. Koko is intelligent, or Feafl SGa7DEag)S nm KOKO ALSO IS quick to thinks, for example, about her social relationships with think up an alibi. For instance she plays her own others," Miss Patterson exin which plained. The researcher is in brand of keep-awa- y no hurry. .the opponent is never allowI hope to be spending my ed to have the ball. Once life studying Koko and her when a player pursued the if we can gather a ball under Kokos house family family for her, Miss Pattertrailer, where she lives on son said. Were interested the Stanford campus, she in getting a companion for gave him a play bite on the her in the immediate future posterior. Asked to explain it need not be a male Koko signed: this no-nand in the more long-terHim ball bad. future want to get her a Like most mate. Koko loves to play games. 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