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	The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas
		Koko's performance (see Table 1) was twice as good as might have been expected by chance, and there was no significant difference in her performance whether the instructions were given in sign only or English only.
		Koko, at age six, was given a test that parallels a study with human children 5 to 13 years old by Wolman, Lewis, and King.
		Koko had previously passed an informal "mark test" when she attempted to rub away a dark spot of pigment on her upper gum, a spot that she had precisely located by looking into her mouth with a mirror.
	www.abslogic.com /CaseForPersonhood.htm (6196 words)

	Koko - Iridis Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Koko is also the name of a cartoon character in Fleischer Studios' Talkartoon; the title of a novel by Peter Straub; Koko is a posthumous name for an Emperor of Japan; and there are several African Khoisan languages known as the Koko language.
		Koko (born July 4, 1971) is the name of a captive, acculturated gorilla trained by Francine Patterson and other scientists at Stanford University to communicate certain signs based on American Sign Language.
		In August of 2004, Koko was in the news again due to a toothache.
	www.iridis.com /Koko (257 words)

	Peter Straub - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Following a brief fallow period, Straub re-emerged in 1988 with Koko, a non-supernatural (though often horrific) Vietnam novel.
		Koko was followed in the early '90s by the related novels Mystery and The Throat, which together with Koko comprise the "Blue Rose Trilogy".
		These complex and intertwined novels extended Straub's explorations into meta-fiction and unreliable narrators.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Straub (235 words)

	Trash (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The second part of the novel departs from the point at which Koko leaves her two-year relationship with Rick and traces the struggles that she endures as a result of her leaving.
		Koko gathers many of her things from her apartment and moves in with a friends of hers and his boyfriend.
		Koko returns to the apartment where she is staying and later visits Randy's apartment to spend the night.
	www.students.haverford.edu /east/east260/projects/yamada/trash.html (2507 words)

	Monkey Maddness Bulletin Board (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Koko has introduced numerous innovations during the past year: She has invented signs and names for novel objects; she talks to herself; engages in imaginative play using sign; has used language to lie, to express her emotions and to refer to things displaced in time and space.
		Koko was given one bottle at a time, and instructed to smell and identify it with a name (she was told it could be Ron's, Penny's, Dave's, Michael's or Koko's).
		Koko may have really been having difficulty with the test, or she may simply have been being contrary, because we gave Mike the same test under slightly different conditions which required a pointing rather than a naming response, and he responded correctly on 10 out of 16 trials (chance would have been 5.3).
	www.monkeymaddness.com /bbm/bbm426.htm (2824 words)

	The Rolex Awards: teaching sign language to gorillas, F. Patterson
		Given the fact that "Project Koko" was an ongoing, longitudinal study, in 1976 Patterson created the Gorilla Foundation, together with Dr. Ronald Cohn, and the late Barbara Hiller, who had cared for Koko as an infant in the zoo nursury.
		Over the years, Koko’s vocabulary has expanded – it could now be over 1,000 words – and she has appeared in newspapers, magazines, books and films throughout the world.
		Koko put a fist, the ASL sign for "S", to her brow, thus constructing the word browse.
	www.rolexawards.com /laureates/laureate-43-patterson.html (1683 words)

	Ducts.org: Interview with Chris Genoa by Chris Genoa
		Koko communicates through a modified form of American Sign Language, or ASL, which was taught to her by researchers at The Gorilla Institute in California.
		As an interviewer, Koko is known for not being afraid to ask the tough questions, and for her unique use of one to three word statements.
		Koko has a tested IQ of between 70 and 95 on a human scale, where 100 is considered "normal." While Chris’s IQ has never been formally tested, it is certain that he has, at the very least, mastered the concept of object permanence.
	ducts.org /12_04/html/humor/genoa.htm (1382 words)

	MauiTime Weekly Online - Vol 7 #15 - Oct 9, 2003 - Cover Story: KOKO the 'Talking' Gorilla is coming to paradise (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Koko, for those who don't read National Geographic or watch PBS or late night talk shows, is--as her handlers like to say--the "world's most famous ape." Her claim to fame is that she supposedly communicates with American Sign Language (ASL).
		For the rest of "Project Koko," as she came to calling her work with the gorilla, Patterson has faced criticism ridicule from virtually the entire linguistic community--namely, that Koko can't communicate and Patterson simply reads too much into the gorilla's gestures.
		Koko initiates the majority of conversations with her human companions and typically constructs statements averaging three to six words.
	www.mauitime.com /v07/v07iss15/feat.html (2426 words)

	CSICOP / News / Questioning Talking Apes and Chimpanzee Memoirs
		Koko, a resident of the Gorilla Foundation in the suburbs of San Francisco, California, has been tutored in modified American sign language for 25 years and reportedly is able to understand close to 2,000 words of spoken English.
		Koko responded in sign-language, the answers were interpreted into spoken English by her trainer, and sent back out into cyberspace.
		Koko and Patterson moved their efforts to the suburbs of San Francisco in 1979, funding for continued research coming from private donations and exclusive ownership and sale of photos of Koko to magazines.
	www.csicop.org /articles/koko (1385 words)

	The New York Review of Books: GORILLA TALK
		The Sebeoks assume that because Koko had refused to use this sign on this particular day with this particular assistant, even when the teacher repeatedly demonstrated ("cued!") the sign, that she had not mastered it; however drink was a sign Koko had then used reliably on a daily basis for several years.
		The Sebeoks state that the types of responses Koko gave to avoid the double blind test were not included in the four categories of errors I listed, so that "we may assume they are in fact not represented in the sixty percent score" she achieved.
		The full context of Koko's "Flower pink fruit stink, fruit stink pink" rhyme was a dinnertime discussion of broccoli with two teachers, one of whom responded, "You're rhyming, neat!" to which koko replied "Love meat sweet." Following this incident, her ability to rhyme was tested.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/7293 (1617 words)

	Books : Throat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		In this complicated, Vietnam War-themed novel, Straub retained his trademark cerebral style, but the ghostly trappings were gone.
		"Koko" was straight psychological horror, as were its...
		The protagonist of the novel is Tim Underhill, a Vietnam vet turned author who is obbsessed with the childhood murder of his sister.
	www.feasyjet.com /ItemId/0451179188 (476 words)

	Koko - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		Koko (gorilla), an ape that allegedly uses American Sign Language
		Koko the Clown, a Fleischer Studios' cartoon character
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Koko (118 words)

	Lillian Jackson Braun Mystery Writer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Koko, on the other hand, is spending hours on the porch in the dark, watching the sky for stars--or something!
		Koko and Yum Yum may have been miles away from the scene of the crime, but they're just a whisker away from cracking the case.
		With the help of Koko and Yum Yum, he endeavors to bring the right people to justice before the small town is destroyed by a crime wave.
	members.fortunecity.com /le10/authors/authorsA-G/lillianbraun.htm (1610 words)

	Apes & Monkeys (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Koko's progress in acquiring language is compared to that of human children with respect to vocabulary size, sign articulation, generalization, and word types classified into functional categories.
		Although working from a "script," Koko also ad-libbed with words Penny did not ask her to say, declaring, "Me gorilla good." After allowing Penny to pose her against a white backdrop, moving this way and that and looking at Ron's camera on request, Koko declared she was "finished" with adramatic sweep of her hands.
		Koko climbs down from her seat but puts her face fight up to the camera instead of moving away.
	www.monkeymaddness.com /apes_monkeys/bbm7.htm (4907 words)

	The New York Review of Books: More on Monkey Talk
		The scenes of that film, in which both Koko and her teacher are visible, left me (and many other viewers) with the clear impression that the teacher initiated most of the signing and that Koko's signing was highly imitative of the teacher's utterances.
		That Koko could perform at better than chance levels on a comprehension test of novel utterances in sign language and in spoken English is not evidence of grammatical competence.
		Totally absent from Patterson's description of Koko's ability to rhyme, to use metaphors and such abstract concepts as because and imagine is the kind of training needed to establish such linguistic skills.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/7218 (975 words)

	AOL Puts Gorilla in Chat Room
		Koko, who was born in 1971 at the San Francisco Zoo, has been taught American Sign Language for 25 years.
		The group says Koko has an IQ between 70 and 95, which is somewhat lower than the human average of 100.
		To disbelievers, Koko’s sign language ability is a manifestation of Clever Hans syndrome, a phenomenon named after a horse who allegedly could solve math problems.
	www.geocities.com /willc7/TalkingToKoko.html (671 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Love feud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The novel is very deep, it works on many levels; literal, mental, even on a mystical plain.
		It is a mystery, a horror novel, a sharp satire on the media, a look at mob psychology, and a look at the fractured psyche of Vietnam vets.
		Fifty pages into it, I was tempted to get out a pad and pen and start again, making notes of all the characters and trying to figure out who the narrator actually was in the context of the events in Mystery, to which he kept referring.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0671535935 (815 words)

	Throat by Peter Straub
		This tale of Timothy Underhill(the 'secret' hero of "Koko", as Straub calls him) investigating a series of murders in a large midwestern city--murders which seem to be related to a string of killings that occurred decades before--owes as much to Raymond Chandler as it does to Edgar Allan Poe.
		The details and atmosphere are so rich, so specific to place and time (a thinly disguised Milwaukee, late 40's-early 50's up through the present), and layer after layer of menace is built up in increments that make it all seem so real that you have to wonder what nightmares lie in the author's own past.
		KOKO and MYSTERY, novels related to the Blue Rose murders detailed in this one, share several characters with THROAT but differ enough in details to further mystify and discomfit a reader who already is convinced that Mr.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Throat-0451179188.htm (1111 words)

	Cool Hand Luke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		Koko and BLIND DICK have their seats, are arranging their piles of change.
		KOKO (shaking his head) Gonna be a hot one to learn on.
		All eggs peeled, Koko is up and dancing wildly, and a couple of men, even though they've got nothing but everything to lose, are intoxicated beyond power to restrain themselves and are yelling and jumping up and down.
	www.geocities.com /classicmoviescripts/script/cool_hand_luke.html (11087 words)

	Koko by Peter Straub
		Koko is an excellent adventure mystery.The author's prose is clean-cut without giving the appearance of having suffered undue compaction.It's very scarry and begs multiple, repeat readings.I don't remember anything better by Peter Straub.
		"Koko" is a complex tale of a group of men who travel to hell and return with demons.
		In Peter Straub's "Koko", Vietnam vets Michael Poole, Connor Linklater, and Harry Beevers all meet at a Washington D.C. war memorial to discuss their friend Tim Underhill, who they all think is a psychopathic killer murdering reporters who covered a massacre during the war.
	www.book-summary-review.com /Koko-0451162145.htm (1097 words)

	The Cat Who Turned On and Off (Cat Who...): Current Amazon U.S.A. One-Edition Data
		While the publisher list this as the fourth novel in this series, Amazon is correct in labeling it as the third, preceding 'The Cat Who Ate Danish Modern.' This is a minor irritant, but interferes not at all with the story line.
		While she often uses similar plot gimmicks from novel to novel, Braun always manages to give everything a unique twist that makes her eminently readable.
		Koko and Yum Yum are both great cats (even though only Koko seems to be a good detective) and if you read the books in order you find Jim (Qwill) becoming a better person for his friendship with the cats.
	www.ferretexpert.info /stuff-0515087947.html (2283 words)

	Koko.org / Koko's World / Koko's Friends / Flower
		Koko named the 12-week-old female German Shepherd a novel sign that would best be translated as "pointed ears." This is very appropriate in sign language since proper names are often reflective of a dominant physical characteristic of the individual.
		That was in the days before the doggie translation devices came onto the market, so we never figured out any part of what she was trying to say.
		Thank you, Flower, for being such a wonderful and inspiring part of Koko's family, and for reminding us everyday that intelligence and profound awareness and empathy are not limited to great apes.
	www.koko.org /world/flower.html (283 words)

	The Straight Dope: Are gorillas using sign language really communicating with humans?
		Similar examples abound: "lips" is supposedly Koko's word for woman, "foot" her word for man. Koko made a lot of signs, and sometimes expressed desires or other thoughts, but nothing in the transcript suggests a sustained conversation, even of the simple sort you might have with a toddler.
		One of the more telling complaints made about gorillas like Koko who communicated via sign language was that they often babbled, producing long, apparently meaningless strings of signs.
		What's more, when presented with 653 sentences making requests using novel word combinations, Kanzi responded correctly 72 percent of the time--supposedly comparable to what a human child can do at two and a half years old.
	www.straightdope.com /columns/030328.html (769 words)

	The SF Site Featured Review: lost boy lost girl
		Tim Underhill is not close to his brother who still lives in their home town, but he can't fail to return to help when his brother's wife commits suicide and their son mysteriously disappears, perhaps a victim of a serial killer.
		There are also many things this novel isn't: while it is a murder mystery, it is far from a traditional murder mystery.
		A conventional murder mystery involves a crime, a puzzle about who the perpetrator is, a set of clues, and perhaps most importantly, a cast of suspects limited to characters with prominent parts in the story.
	www.sfsite.com /11a/lb163.htm (805 words)

	Mobutu Sese Seko Koko Ngbendu wa za Banga -- Encyclopædia Britannica
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		His 1964 novel ‘Weep Not, Child' was the first major novel published in English by an East African author.
		It is situated at an altitude of 10,515 feet (3,205 meters) in a depression in the Qilian Shan mountain system of China.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=9114821 (880 words)

	Peter Straub books on Thbooks.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		The premise is that the history of a famous fantasy novel not only concerns some eccentric authors, but collides with a wily killer on a rampage.
		In several of the talesAmost notably The Haunted Village, which links to the novel Koko (1988) and stories from his previous collection, Houses Without Doors (1990)AStraub skillfully evokes the supernatural to suggest the dislocating effect of intense psychological upset.
		From Publishers Weekly Since the publication of Koko in 1988, Straub has specialized in macabre mysteries dense with the details of small-town life and cast with ordinary people who find that the extraordinary crimes they investigate raise doubts about their own moral integrity.
	www.thbooks.com /pg/peterstraub.html (2439 words)

	Ronald Frobnitz - Reviews - Capowski's Birds
		And yet there are deep-seated flaws - suspiciously uneven writing and conspicuously uncharacteristic elements - that will puzzle longtime fans to such an extent that one could say that the mysteries in the book are far overshadowed by the mystery of the book.
		Even in the sub-par installments, Qwilleran was always Qwilleran, a gruff-yet inquisitive, sardonic, sensible, sympathetic center to steady cast and reader through the novels' crime, double-dealings, the craziness of urban bustle and rural "individuality", and, as of late, through some less-than-dazzling plot and prose stretches.
		See, there are several good ideas in the novel - Koko's bird garden, eccentric old-time pioneer woman Maude Coggin, the uprising against computers in the library and its subsequent solution, the spell-off - that could only have come from Braun; her touch is not totally absent.
	home.att.net /~RACapowski/reviews/RCbirds.htm (1459 words)

	World Fantasy Awards
		The recipients of the 1999 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Providence, RI on November 7, 1999.
		The recipients of the 2002 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Minneapolis, MN on November 3, 2002.
		The recipients of the 2003 World Fantasy Awards were announced at the World Fantasy Convention in Washington, DC on November 2, 2003.
	www.dpsinfo.com /awardweb/worldfantasy (1532 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Throat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-14)
		I read both "KOKO" and "MYSTERY" a few years back and never got around to "THE THROAT" until just recently, mostly because "MYSTERY" was some-what of a chore to finish.
		What seperates the author, however, is his meandering prose which is filled with enough detail to possibly fill another novel.
		We are reintroduced to Tim Underhill from "Koko" and Tom Pasmore from "Mystery." These two heroes are deeply embroiled in discovering the identity of the mysterious Blue Rose murderer who struck in 1950 and now looks like he/she is back in 1989 or so.
	amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451179188?v=glance (1813 words)

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