Planet of the Apps ” was the headline in the British tabloid The Sun on April 1st. Referring to the 1968 film of the same name and its sequels, Bryan Flinn describes how gorillas became addict to the iPad. Zookeeper Phil Ridges witness it: “We thought they would bang them on rocks but they carri them round as if they were babies.” Most readers fell for this April Fool’s joke, but it turn out that it wasn’t such a crazy idea after all, when the New Scientist report on an experiment by zoo volunteer Scott Engel at the end of last year.
Real monkeys fall for apps
For Christmas, the zoo volunteer had given his old iPad to an orangutan. The headline “” says it all: estonia phone number list the apps were a resounding success. The ape colony “went bananas!” For Richard Zimmerman of Orangutan Outreach , a group that works to help this endanger species, this experiment was a gift from heaven. Last May, he had already start the “Apps for Apes” campaign, complete with a website where people can donate money and make their surplus iPads available to the apes.
Of course, great apes are excellent candidates for learning to use iPads. The animals are intelligent, curious and creative, but in captivity they often become bor and depress. The iPad as a window to a digital reality that makes existence bearable is a brilliant idea. Apparently, it is not for nothing that lob directory the thing is equipp with the so-call ‘gorilla glass’.
All those apps are great
Monkeys love simple drawing apps, but the music app Magic Piano and Koi Pond are also . Apps for apes one way to consider this is a fixed-rate very popular. Despite the gorilla glass, the iPad does not last very long in the hands of an orangutan. That is why a robust casing is now being develop. It had better be waterproof, because dolphins are now also using the device. On the website of SpeakDolphin , an institute for better communication between people and cetaceans, we see how dolphins can deliberately tap an object or an action via symbols .