They could have just bought Koko a _Girls Gone Wild_ video.
Wow! How can you be THAT smart and THAT naive at the same time? LOL
Could been worse. Koko coulda been a male gorilla.
Sounds like biker week at Laconia NH
Show me your t*ts!
Man, this story was WRITTEN with Iowahawk in mind...here's hoping he gives us a decent parody!
I bet I know what her favorite restaurant is.
What happened to multi-culturalism? If Koko wants to see her human caretakers breasts, I think they should, in the interest of multi-culturalism, comply.
Do they want to communicate with Koko or not? Isn't that they whole idea?
" Mr. Cohn suggested Marchese cut a paper plate in half and use that to accomplish the task," the suit alleges."
At least he suggested a paper plate. Hyper-enviros would be hyper-ventilating around the world had he suggested using a foam plate.
Just when you thought the news couldn't get any more strange....
There are times when I regret havibg learned to read.
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Keep 'em fired, don't pay 'em a cent.
This is a wild animal living in a caged environment.
You have to expect some behavior from a gorilla which might seem strange to humans. They don't even know if it's deviant behavior for gorillas.
Bleep, deviant behavior in humankind, is, according to the fagachussets SJC, an "evolving paradigm" (yes, those same people who brought you homosexual marriage).
There's barely a baseline for gorilla behavior in a natural habitat, how messed up can a caged animal be?
How would a human behave in those conditions (besides Charlton Heston, LOL)?
What the freak do these gold diggers expect?
What schools did these idiots go to? Probably liberal (what other kind is there). They should be learning and writing papers about Koko.
I've always been fascinated by the whole Koko animal-human communication experiment.
Unless the lead researcher (defendant) really is a lesbo (which I doubt), and has somehow flipped out Koko, then I don't think Koko's demands are too far out of line.
Gorilla's don't wear clothes. Maybe bare skin and breasts are some kind of visual signal to her. I could imagine clothes freaking me out if all I was programed for was a hairy (naked) body.
Sounds like Koko might just want to know what she's dealing with.
Who knows how her brain deals with captivity and being continually surrounded by another species, hidden behind the falseness of human clothing?
Olfactory signals might not be enough for a gorilla, most humans have lost (or are unaware of) a lot of their sense of smell. Remember, a gorilla's genes are pretty close to ours.
Animals also have a lot of visual signals lost to most humans.
As far as having to clean up the cage, WTF did they expect?
If you had an experimental animal that you'd invested your lifespan and professional reputation on, would you want a minimum wage, non-english-speaking type messing around in the cage?
A recent hospital experience reaffirmed that I don't want those types anywhere near me. I was essentially a captive, they didn't speak my language, and they smelled bad.
They were smaller, shorter, and a different color from me. It was uncomfortable, and for all it mattered, I was a captive of a foreign species.
For all it mattered, I could have been a gorilla (well, except of the hair and weight, I pretty much am, LOL).
I hung in there as long as I needed to, just get checked out normally for my insurance to cover it.
Apply that experience to a completely different species, with a much lower IQ, and put up cage bars.
Bleep these women that are suing.
The actual title of the source story is:
'Women: Caretaker of famous gorilla pressured us to bare our breasts'
OESY, it is good FR form to use the same title or headline for a post that was used for the source article. This facilitates FR searches to avoid duplicate posts.
My first reaction was that it isn't Koko with the fetish- it's the Doctor, who is probably a lesbian with some serious kink issues.
It wasn't the female gorilla who got mad if shirts weren't raised, was it??
The Insane running the monkey house.