The Great Ape Language Experiments

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Koko the Gorilla died.

https://www.npr.org/2018/06/21/622160278/koko-the-gorilla-dies-redrew-the-lines-of-animal-human-communication

This was a story very similar to Nim Chimpsky,

https://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138467156/project-nim-a-chimps-very-human-very-sad-life

Apes can learn language, but not as well as a human toddler.

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