Koko

Koko Taylor also known as “Queen of the Blues”. Koko Taylor is an extraordinary singer with a powerful voice and not afraid to sing what she wants. Known for her iconic 1965 hit ‘Wang Dang Doodle’, a line that really caught my attention was “We're gonna pitch a wang dang doodle all night long”, she’s expressing a very strong sexual feeling, which in my defense is a good way of expressing the song lyrics and vocals better. Even though Willie Dixon was the songwriter, and he was the one who meant them, she sang it in a way that makes the audience feel the emotions as she sang them. She must have also put in her own words to make it sound more like her. When writing her song ‘I’m a Women’ Koko stated, “So I come up with the idea of writing a…

Growing up in the Nuba Mountain region of Sudan, Jalila Khamis Koko grew up to face an incredible challenge in her life. Born in South Kordofan around 1968, Koko experienced and witnessed many violence from the civil war in her country. South Kordofan, centered in the Nuba Mountains with its capital, Kadugli, is the only state in northern Sudan to produce oil in its fertile area of Abyei, claimed by both Sudan and South Sudan since the two countries could not decide which one should own the…

Research Project A comparison of “Koko” and “So What” “Koko” as well as “So What” are two of the most influential and famous pieces pertaining to Jazz. With “Koko” being composed and performed by Charlie “Bird” Parker and “So What” being composed and performed by Miles Davis. These two musicians are no doubt heavily involved in the development of jazz and are two of the most renowned musicians in the world. “Koko” was composed in the early 1940’s, where as “So What” was composed in the late…

What did you think of these films? Answer: I loved watching them, especially Koko, it was a rollercoaster ride for my emotions. It was fascinating to see the way Koko and Kanzi, had learned to communicate in the same language that humans do. I keep wondering if more people were as dedicated as Dr. Patterson with this subject, how far we would be today with communicating with other primates. Would these primates eventually be teaching other primates the human language by means of cultural…

Francine Patterson in his writings of "Conversations with a Gorilla” describes about the life of Koko. He describes that some animals also react like humans, for example, Koko. The main idea of the article is that Koko is using the same language as humans or not. Well, I strongly agree with the statement that Koko is using language in human ways. As this article shows that scientists taught other animals to converse with signs, but Koko was the first gorilla who has done this. Moreover, she…

of patterning, and structure dependence (“Prairie Dogs…”). Koko is an amazing gorilla that learned and uses sign language to communicate with human caregivers. However, because of few scientific papers and data not available to others, questions are raised about whether the extent of Koko’s communication is completely real, or if some of it may be those close to her projecting her achievements because they want her to succeed (Hu). Koko does use semanticity because she is using sign language to…

Humans have been searching for the point of difference between ourselves and other animal species for centuries. Most recently, it was suggested that one of the decisive factors was language. Conversely, a study published by Fourth Estate in 1993 entitled The Great Ape Project; Equality Beyond Humanity contained a piece by Dr. Francine Patterson and Wendy Gordon called The Case for the Personhood of Gorillas. This article was based on research gathered when working with a pair of lowland…

I think that animals like Koko who has the capacity to communicate to humans are additional proofs that chimpanzees and humans may have come from the same ancestors as Charles Darwin postulated. As what I'd observed in the video, Koko learned how to communicate using sign language and he expressed his opinion about taking care of the Earth. In short, Koko is a wise man and his ability to think is only a human can does. Maybe, not as wide understanding as the modern man but still, he can think…

realization has led to animal rights activists to fight for apes to have human rights. Many countries, such as the U.K. and New Zealand, have not only given these apes rights ,but they also have banned medical testing on apes and banned them from being confined in zoos or circuses. However, the U.S. refuses to completely stop medical testing on apes, but animals activists have been successful in persuaded the government to reduce the funding for medical testing on apes. Even though we share…

She also scored between 70 and 95 on human IQ test. The unbelievably human cognitive ablities of this clever gorilla , is even more impressive and has a greater impact on who is reading because the primate family is widely known as being the closest to ours. The human race descends from the animal one and feelings , language skills and anything purely considered and related human . Back in 2001 Robin Willaims visited the Gorilla Foundation in Northern California and met Koko , during their…