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Apes May Be Much Closer To Human Speech Than We Realized

Koko has been called the “world’s most intelligent gorilla.”

The beloved 44-year-old western lowland gorilla uses over 1,000 signs from American Sign Language to communicate, and has gained a sophisticated understanding of spoken English through the help of a team of psychologists and researchers who have spent decades training her.

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