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Comment comment by Eye.Of.Sage on 28 July 2006

How do we know Koko actually learned to communicate, maybe it was just doing what the zoo keeper is telling her to do.

You know, I taught my turtle how to communicate too. When it's hungry, it swims toward me and tries to bite me. Or maybe it just wants to eat me

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Koko & The Dentist by VnutZ :: NR8

There was a case when Koko actually used her vocabulary to inform the zookeepers she required dental work. This was completely unprompted by the zoo and demonstrated an ability to use the language beyond circumstances in which it had previously been used.

(FYI - can you use real subject lines? It's difficult to navigate your posts in the recent comments section. You are receiving automatic 'hard to read' from the moderator/arbitrators because of it).

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