Gorilla

Wednesday June 28, 2006 - 9:43PM EDT

Watching thing on Koko the gorilla. I've read and seen other things on this gorilla but this one is pretty good. The detail in which it goes into gorilla behavior is astonishing sometimes. The movie planet of the apes doesn't seem all that crazy when I watch this. What would be really freaky is if somehow they passed on their advanced communication methods to wild gorillas so that it would be normal for wild gorillas to understand human sign language. When I see shows on animal intelligence that show then as much more than mindless beasts I always think about our own intelligence and just what it means to be intelligent or so-called sentient.