Orangutans show off video game skills at Atlanta zoo
By Donald Melanson 
posted Apr 13th 2007 9:55AM
posted Apr 13th 2007 9:55AM
While they don't yet appear to have tried their hand at Donkey Kong: Jungle Beat, a pair of orangutans at Zoo Atlanta have recently started to hone their skills at some slightly simpler fare, which some IBM workers developed for the zoo in their time off. Apparently designed to study the cognitive skills of the primates, the games involve drawing pictures with the touchscreen, picking out identical photographs, and matching orangutan sounds to the proper picture. For each correct answer, the orangutans are rewarded with a food pellet -- something Nintendo would be wise to consider for its next console. [Via FARK, photo courtesy of Gene Blythe/AP]
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I think most Nintendo players are smarter than Orangutans... but Sony might be wise to have a food dispenser in their next console.
Wait.. I thought Sony's was already a food dispenser. It cuts the fat!!
LOL this reminds me of the people I see at McDonalds ordering *their* food from a similiar device... maybe we were the beta testers for this monkey version...
http://tinyurl.com/2zwsaq
Wii...would like to eat.
(bowing orangutans)
No, no - the picture is of the guy that always writes:
"I am teh f1rst 2 comm3nt!"
...here on engadget.
those orangutans are going to be the first non-humans to get carpul tunnel.
I'd be worried if they actually were given any Donkey Kong title to play. It might inspire some sort of revolt.
There should definitely be some "caption of the day" contest with this pic.
"Wtf, no 1M:1. These IBM guys are newbs."
Aren't obsessive gamers already disproportionally overweight compared to the national average?
Now if the monkey does anything bad or gets fat the trainers can blame it on the videogame.
I'm pretty sure he's testing out the lastest electronic voting machine. The company making them determined orangutans were ideal test subjects as their IQs were on par with most voters.
the programmers got time off? what's the world coming to?!
So easy, an orangutan can do it?
Headline: Video games makes orangutans to be violent.
Yeah great, now we got a whole 'nother species wasting away in front of the TV playing video games. This has got to be de-evolution, right?
It's a hell of a come-down from Flight Sims and Space travel. Still if playing snap is all you've got.
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So when is Creative going to introduce a new range of gamers oriented gear for orangutans, with such poor sales, it could very well turn around their business!
It's amazing to see what type of comments people make after they've read an article about orangutans.
You all must have a list of orangutan conversation pieces (and cheesy jokes) written on a paper, just for situations just like this.
Keep it up every! ;-)
How about a mild shock to the nads of Bill Gates every time windows crashes or hardware fails to work with Vista cause of driver issues...
I'd pay for that!
Ah, the annoying Halo 2 players on Xbox Live finally have a face... You little bastards.