Word: gorillaã
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Originally some press mistakenly reported that Koko herself had penned the songs, but the gorilla??€™s only active role in the creation of the CD was to indicate her preferences of lyrics and musical styles. Linguistics professor Bert Vaux, who has lectured on Koko in his class, Social Analysis 34: Knowledge of Language, responded to early claims that Koko was a songwriter, saying, “This scheme is consistent with what [The Language Instinct author Steven] Pinker accuses the animal trainers of doing with Koko and the other ‘talking’ animals...
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