Berners, four, is not his mother's computer wizard, but he is learning.
Just a few days ago, he played the game with his lips and feet on the touch --
The screen monitor when his mother Madu swings from the vines and climbs the tree.
Two Sumatran people.
Utans is part of the new Atlanta Zoo study, which uses computer games to study the cognitive abilities of primates. The best part?
Visitors can watch each of their computer moves. The orang-
Utans play on the touch screen built into the tree-
Like the structure of the habitat, it is integrated with the environment.
Visitors watch from the monitor.
Zoo officials hope that opening the program to the public will raise awareness of the world's rapidly shrinking orang
The population of the endangered UDAN in the next decade.
"The more we know about orang --
UDAN's cognitive process, the more we know about what they need to survive in the wild, "said Tara stoynski of the zoo.
In a game
Utans choose the same photo or match orang-
Pictures of the sounds and animals of UDAN.
The correct answer is food pellets.
There is also a painting game where they can draw by moving their hands and other body parts around the screen.
Computer games test the animal's memory, reasoning, and learning abilities to provide data for zoo researchers and the project's partner, the Atlanta Center for Behavioral Neuroscience.
Volunteers from IBM worked for nearly 500 hours to develop the game until the event was challenging enough for orang --utans.
This data will help researchers understand orang-
Social mode.
Finally, the researchers hope that these data can point out new protection ideas, so that 37,000 orang-
On Indonesia's Borneo and Sumatra islands, utans in the wild will not continue to die.