Apes and iPads: Even Apes Love the Apple iPad

“Apps for Apes is all about giving orangutans in human care choice over their environment. With the iPad, we’re hoping to tap less into the critical-thinking outlet and more into a creative outlet. If they’re engaged in an app, we’ll keep going. If not, they have the choice to walk away.”

In other words, the apes are not forced to use the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad. Instead, they are given the choice to either continue using the device or walk away if uninterested.

For more information on what the program is looking to accomplish, consider this quote from Richard Zimmerman, founding director of Orangutan Outreach:

“Primarily, we want the Apps for Apes program to help people understand why we need to protect wild orangutans from extinction. We do that when we show Zoo visitors how similar humans and apes are, be it through observation, talking with wildlife experts or seeing the apes use the same technology we use every day.”

It is  nice to see that this program, with the help of the Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad, can help raise awareness.

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