Koko turned 45 in July, and with both human and primate approaching their twilight years, the topic of what should happen in the case of death is a sensitive one for Patterson. While there are staff members who could physically look after Koko, as they did when Patterson was in the hospital for three weeks with a broken hip, the pair’s bond is irreplaceable — an effect the grad student likely never considered when first admiring that baby gorilla in the zoo decades ago.
http://nypost.com/2016/07/28/i...orilla-who-can-talk/
Koko never got to Hawaii, she lives in the Santa Cruz mountains in California.
