Stay away from the self-absorbed ones, Samboja!
Orangutans, you swingers. Now there’s a Tinder for you
Samboja the female orangutan will scroll through pictures of males and let zookeepers know which ones she’d like to invite over for a little monkey business.
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As part of an experiment called “Tinder for Orangutans,” employees at the Apenheul primate park in the Netherlands plan to show Samboja images of eligible males on a touchscreen tablet. If she pays extra attention to a picture or video, that’s a sign she might want to meet the guy for some innocent fur grooming — and possibly more.
Since Samboja’s prospects come from as far away as Singapore, the zoo wants to increase the chances of dating success by giving Samboja a say in her love life.
The researchers hope to gain insight into how female orangutans pick their mates. Tinder for Orangutans is part of a larger collaborative study of bonobo and orangutan emotions by Apenheul and the University of Leiden. Other parts of the study also involve showing animals pictures of peers on a touchscreen and having them tap a dot that measures their response…
This isn’t the first time orangutans have have played with tablets. Zoos around the world have adopted Apps for Apes, a program from Orangutan Outreach that gives the animals an iPad for mental stimulation.
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