Introducing: A Show About Animals
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What's the Difference Between a Gorilla and a Human?
Coco was the first gorilla to be taught sign language. Penny says these intelligence tests aren't the greatest metric because they have a cultural bias towards humans. In a 19 99 documentary that aired on p p s penny argues that gorrillas already have this fundamental ability to learn language. It's there. They just need to be exposed to it. Exposing her to something and letting the wiring, the genetic make up, do what it would normally do enough sein of saying, well, maybe were not separate from nature. Maybe we're not different in kind.
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