When Koko Met Ndume 

@Mario Wow you know alot. Thanks for the information 👍🏻

@Mario you are so right!! You know what the biggest thing they did that contributed to/was the cause of her not ever becoming pregnant? lol..the fact that other than that initial meeting with the male in this video they were never ever again allowed to be in the same enclosure together..ever! Poor Ndume stayed locked up inside a freaking trailer pretty much 24/7 often for weeks at at time. She never wanted Koko to actually become pregnant because she was afraid that if Koko had any relationships with other gorillas it would interfere with the relationship she had with Koko. You can search and out of the hundreds of video clips out there you will never ever find a video that shows them interacting together or in the same enclosure together! 😉🙂

@Gina powell Really? Is it true or its just your perception?

Swipe right koko.

@@PrimateProductions , I agree,there is always a selfish component to research,but do you really believe she did not want Koko to be happy and become a mother?

So does my cat? Way more impressive she can sign language

Lucy Kelly who says they can't? if you knock one eye out of an animal they can still see and it's in 2D

they're pretty close to humans. what i find amazing is how they handle kittens and do sign language

Do you always believe everything people say on the internet? I'm not trying to be mean only my point is "Dr. Penny" is notoriously dishonest when it comes to KoKo!! How she can sleep at night is beyond me!

@@AlanGonzalez-ev6ur umm..ever wonder why they go through so many kittens?? As far as sign language goes I wouldnt get too excited when it comes to Koko.

"talkin to humans and shit..." 😂

Why does it sounds like a reference to a movie or something ?

Story of my fkking life 🙄

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vespur They need to find koko a friend comedian who can visit her often ! She leaves in CA. Right? lots of comedians there! or maybe more than one will visit her! she needs friends! it makes her happy

I imagine the reason why Ndume was freaked out by Koko was because of the way she approached him. She approached him with excitement, but more importantly, the way HUMANS approach/greet one another. Gorilla's do things differently... Gorilla's born in the wild when they are attracted to a potential mate, she will be near him but not closer than 20 feet. The female will then wait for the male to approach them. If he does, than they mate. If he acts uninterested, then the female either gives up looks for someone else, OR.... Well! The female gorilla goes and talks to another male or group of males, but the alternate male/males are WEAKER in station! (This is important!😉) She flirts with these males in FRONT of the 1st choice male. This USUALLY ends up working out for the female because the male gorilla NORMALLY becomes jealous (Why she talking to them/him? He ain't even HALF the gorilla I am!!) Male gorilla kicks the other males out, before they can "score", and the female and 1st choice male are happy!😊 They mate and they are then "together." I don't understand why the people taking care of Koko didn't teach her how to "attract" another male gorilla.... I can only guess that we didn't know this info at the time... (I got my info from a pbs documentary specifically on gorilla's interacting in the wild.)

Sandra Lee I know Robin Williams did before he passed!! She loved him!!! Robin even made a joke about meeting her in some of his stand up! He said that he was afraid Koko was going to rape him, cause she "really" liked him!!😁 What's Robin going to do? FIGHT OFF A GORILLA? Lol😄

Wot the fuck are we doing I’m ashamed to be a homo sapien

Me Tho put her in the Oval Office

Lol

+kokoflix yes please!!!!!

SWLinPHX is that true

Ive never laughed so hard at a youtube comment

That would never have happened because everybody refused to send their gorilla there to her "establishment" because of the awful conditions. Wonder how she ended up with Michael the first male gorilla? This woman who is supposed to be an advocate for gorillas bought Michael and a young female gorilla from a well known hunter/poacher who went out and killed their families in the wild and stole the 2 and then illegally shipped them to the US where it is a known fact that "Dr. Penny" lied about their ages/the time the arrived. She paid a man to steal them from the wild, knowing that the way that happens is because they kill the family to get the baby. The female she paid for died before reaching her.

Did ndume die?

+Pewety Yeah No, but in this video you can see he clearly rejects Koko and runs from her.

Her first partner Michael died but they never mated either.

@@mcaddicts its so sad that they didnt even think of doing IVF for her.

@@egrffin8534 Since she stole Koko or borrowed her and never gave her back to the San Diego zoo. No one was willing to work with her within the primate community.

Every animal grasps the concept of love because love is life and it runs through everything no matter how ugly or how evil

All animals understand love, and death. Koko is intelligent, but all animals feel love towards each other or a human being.

sounds just like human tinder to me lol

@@renatocontrerasflores294 isnt tinder for bimbos? i myself was the only one suggesting another 2%er. thats cause the 2% isnt the 98%

@@ShawnJonesHellion and it used to be a hookup-exclusive app. nowadays ppl are looking for friends in there lmao

I know how she feels, lol

Emily Gifford this is how tinder was thought off

Michael was too senstive and artsy for her. Haha

Cal Breeden I’ve just commented the same. They’re worthy of living a life in a spacious animal sanctuary where Penny could still visit her. They’ve been in captive for far too long. Imagine ourselves living in the same small space without the chance of leaving at all for our entire lives. That’d drive anyone crazy :(

Its too bad that they're endangered too, its not like if we release these animals back into the wild, poachers would just kill them off jusr for fun or for their fur/meat. :/

She had horrible caretakers

@@PrimateProductions she seemed happy and she lived long and was healthy. Pretty good caretakers if you ask me.

Omg if you only knew..great keepers are the last way i would describe them

Man same thing happened to michael.

😂😂😂

Forced? ok adolf

@@isthisjustfantasy7557 thanks for the compliment

Aw, poor Koko. : /

Haha! She is a cat lady! She's had an okay life though, I think.

Graz Kaf mamoo SYL Somali free bye

Graz Kaf she’s absolutely gorgeous maybe he’s just gay

Candace George your mom gay. Not really probably but lol.

A gorilla the most intelligent creature on Earth? What makes you say that?

Stacie M I think they made the right choice by keeping things natural.

I would volunteer my sperm!

@@valinorean4816 weirdo

@@valinorean4816 Um no....

@@hanabanana7041 Why no?!

Who? The doctor was a terrible person

@@PrimateProductions Koko

@@ignis1267 lol...ok...if you think obese gorillas with nasty habits like insisting on being allowed to see and fondle the breasts/nipples of EVERY single person she comes into contact with is considered pretty then I guess... Just remember that you only see what people want you to see when it comes to the internet!

maybe he's gay

***** Yeah, ...not that that there's anything wrong with that.

He kind of swings the other way..

SWLinPHX >>not that that there's anything wrong with that.

SWLinPHX Still, he coulda taken for the team.

Koko wants that. Ndume was freaked the fuck out, however.

Rowan Buchanan Yeah, well at least he made a quick attempt when he rolled the ball to her, LOL.

LOL, he was too shy to look at her but wanted to make a gesture. Cute.

SWLinPHX 🤣🤣☺️🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

slideshowgurl she is so pretty inside and out. God bless her !

Still a better love story than Twilight

No hell it wasnt..it was anything but

Yytr

+mcaddicts I hate to say it but I think you're right. Nothing scares men more. Her biological clock was ticking and she knew she had little time left.

***** Way too old. The absolute max lifespan that we know of for gorillas is 50. She's going on 44, now. Perhaps it would have been best to have introduced her to a very young orphan since she doesn't do well with other gorilla males. Honestly, she has always gotten on better with people.

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