At age 14, Koko made a pet of a fluffy orange tabby cat kitten. The two became inseparable and were famously photographed with the tiny kitten cradled comfortably in the gorilla’s arms.

Koko, the gorilla famous for her ability to communicate using sign language, now has the family she always wanted. On her 44th birthday, the childless Koko was given a box full of kittens by ...

Koko, the western lowland gorilla that began to learn sign language in the San Francisco Zoo and eventually became a celebrity beloved by millions, passed away in her sleep Tuesday at the age of ...

Koko the gorilla makes the sign for "machine." Photograph by Ronald Cohn, ... She also appeared a second time on the cover in January 1985, in a story about Koko and her pet kitten.

At age 14, Koko made a pet of a fluffy orange tabby cat kitten. The two became inseparable and were famously photographed with the tiny kitten cradled comfortably in the gorilla’s arms.

When Koko, a western lowland gorilla, was born in the San Francisco Zoo on the Fourth of July, 1971, zoo staff named her Hanibi-Ko: Japanese for “fireworks child”. Seven years later, now ...

San Francisco: Koko the gorilla, whose remarkable sign-language ability and motherly attachment to pet cats helped change the world's views about the intelligence of animals and their capacity for ...

Woodside: Koko, the gorilla who mastered sign language, raised kittens and once playfully tried on the glasses of the late actor Robin Williams, has died. She was 46. The Gorilla Foundation says ...

Koko the gorilla doted on her pet kitten as if it were her own child. To the amazement of her human handlers, she seemed able to capture the joys and annoyances of maternal love in strings of ...

Koko, a western lowland gorilla, died in her sleep at age 46 this week. ... When Koko's kitten, All Ball, was killed by a car, Koko reacted, her researchers said, ...

Koko the gorilla, whose remarkable sign-language ability and motherly attachment to pet cats helped change the world's views about the intelligence of animals and their capacity for empathy, has ...