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Is the Koko The Gorilla section in Mutualism useful at all?

I was just reading this article and noticed this huge part near the very beginning has basically nothing to add. Koko the Gorilla is an important part of the history of Interspecies Communication, but it has both dubious academic quality as the number of criticisms levied at the Koko research are many and spurious relation to the Mutualism section it’s headlined under.

Mutualism is about two animal species communicating to benefit them each, but the Koko part has no relation to this topic. Alongside this, the AOL chat has pretty awful formatting and zero significance besides being an instance of supposed interspecies communication.

I don’t know if this part of the article should just be axed or if it should be moved down to it’s own headline as an example of attempts at interspecies communication by humans. The whole article looks like it needs to be spiffed up a bit, but I wanted some discussion before I acted unilaterally. JukeDragh (talk) 19:33, 1 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]