iPad introduced to orangutans with ‘App for Apes’ project

Monkeys in general, and in particular the orangutans – extremely intelligent animals. They are characterized by observation and curiosity about people, they get a load of human movement, and often try to repeat them. So now not only you guys know how to drive a finger across the display iPad.

Smithsonian National Zoo (Washington, USA), together with the 12 th zoos in several countries around the world called this program to as “Application for the monkeys.” No one specifically developed for the App Store ape software – on the contrary, orangutans slip soft man. GarageBand , for example – as well as the application for drawing and viewing photos. Different effects – both audible and visual – are the reward for trying to do some gesture.

The administration of the zoo, in general, and does not hide that seeks not so much to teach animals to use tablet, how much stress our similarities with them.

First of all, we want to “Applications for the monkeys” helped people understand why you need to protect wild orangutans from extinction. We strive to show visitors how monkeys like people.