An Audience with KOKO .... lover of cats.
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Another soft, deep roar. Dr Patterson emerges from a side door, closing it behind her, and joins me on the porch. Koko makes a sign. Dr Patterson translates: “Visit. Do you.
“Oh, sweetheart,” she says to Koko, then turns to me: “She’d like you to go inside.” Over the years Koko has inadvertently become a poster child for the gorilla conservation movement. There are several subspecies of gorilla, and today, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, all are either endangered or critically endangered.
It’s rare that anyone gets to meet Koko up close. I find out just how seldom at the Gorilla Foundation offices when I’m told most of the staff there have only ever been outside her enclosure. A handful of celebrities, Leonardo Di Caprio and Robin Williams included, plus a few business leaders have had the pleasure, but this was to raise her profile or secure donations for the foundation. Few journalists have had the opportunity, and I’m told none has spent as long as I will – an hour-and-a-half – in her company.http://tinyurl.com/6yhoct2
“Oh, sweetheart,” she says to Koko, then turns to me: “She’d like you to go inside.” Over the years Koko has inadvertently become a poster child for the gorilla conservation movement. There are several subspecies of gorilla, and today, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, all are either endangered or critically endangered.
It’s rare that anyone gets to meet Koko up close. I find out just how seldom at the Gorilla Foundation offices when I’m told most of the staff there have only ever been outside her enclosure. A handful of celebrities, Leonardo Di Caprio and Robin Williams included, plus a few business leaders have had the pleasure, but this was to raise her profile or secure donations for the foundation. Few journalists have had the opportunity, and I’m told none has spent as long as I will – an hour-and-a-half – in her company.http://tinyurl.com/6yhoct2
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