Wailuku, Hawaii (AP) -- Animal researchers want to see if the gorillas will talk to the dolphins and vice-versa.

The Dolphin Institute of Hawaii and the Gorilla Foundation of California are planning to move to Maui to continue interspecies communication research.

Separately, the experts have used sign language to communicate with Koko the gorilla and four Atlantic bottle-nosed dolphins. But so far, it's only been human-to-dolphin and human-to-gorilla.

Since they have such different environments, it is doubtful communication will take place face-to-face. What researchers hope to do is use video links.

The president of the Dolphin Institute says that's not beyond reason. He says the dolphins they work with understand people signing to them on video very well.

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