ronse@prlb2.UUCP (Christian Ronse) (06/30/87)
> One of the spookier data I have on this is that one gorilla who'd been taught > language (Ameslan, I think), a female named Koko, expressed a primitive but > unmistakable notion of afterlife when discussing the recent death of her pet > kitten (I do have a source for this, but it was a 'new-age' magazine; you > may not care to trust it). > > Eric S. Raymond > UUCP: {{seismo,ihnp4,rutgers}!cbmvax,sdcrdcf!burdvax}!snark!eric I read that there was a film about Koko, by Barbet Schroeder. A female chimp named Washoe, was also taught Ameslan, and another one, named Lana, talked by pressing buttons (see Carl Sagan's book `The Dragons of Eden'). Christian Ronse maldoror@prlb2.UUCP {seismo|philabs|mcvax|...}!prlb2!{maldoror|ronse} ``Does the bottle taste the whisky?'' Jean Serra Image Analysis and Mathematical Morphology -- Christian Ronse maldoror@prlb2.UUCP {seismo|philabs|mcvax|...}!prlb2!{maldoror|ronse}