Zoo gorillas to be given TVs

Zoo gorillas to be given TVs
17-02-2004

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_866591.html

Gorillas in their Midst
21-02-2004

This article is a classic !
How profound !
I guess that if the Moscow zookeepers want to make the Gorillas more "cultured " I guess that they would take them to see the Russian Ballet ?

12-04-2007

A number of zoos have provided Gorillas with Television in order to relieve(presumed) boredom etc. I'm not sure Gorillas actually suffer from 'boredom' anyway, though that's how we often interpret how they look. And no one has ever proved whether they can even recognise the action on the TV screen as any more than flickering images... Big waste of time in my opinion apart from as a rather tired publicity stunt.

13-04-2007

really? you sure bout that grant? since humans, chimps and orangutans (see link at bottom of page) can all recognise visuals displayed on a monitor i find it highly unlikely that gorillas can't..

i also find it interesting that your not sure gorillas percieve boredom.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/...971259489.html

13-04-2007

No, I'm not sure, but I don't think anyone knows to what extent, if any, gorillas, chimps etc understand or interpret what they might see on a TV screen. I know they understand mirrors as a reflection of themselves though, so maybe they do understand what they see.

Re boredom. The restful, relaxed face of most apes mirrors the 'boredom face' in humans because they have less muscles in their faces. I can't speak for Gorillas, but I have seen Chimpanzees in the wild, sitting on a jungle path wearing exactly the same 'bored' expression as visitors comment on with zoo chimps 'oh, the poor thing's so bored.....' Yet these were wild chmps totally in tune with their enviroment.

I believe that unnatural behaviours in captivity such as hair plucking, eating faeces, regurgitating(which may not be unnatural anyway) are caused by stress, unsuitable conditions,or cagemates, or inadequate diet- but not necessarily by the state of boredom-i.e. not being stimulated/wanting something 'to do'

16-04-2007

i've read of tests on facial recognition where chimps matched faces of other chimps and people with their mothers and other relatives. thus proving chimps have better facial recognition than us humans! i'm pretty sure this experiment was undertaken on monitors. thus i am fairly certain humans are not alone as the only great apes that can see television.

16-04-2007

some people sure speak alot of feaces about others

eh ??
17-04-2007

some people sure speak alot of feaces about others

quote from Zooboy .

Do you mean faces , rather than feces ? There is a difference

17-04-2007

yea i mean s hit lol

28-07-2007

well here in england at longleat safarie park the gorrilas wacth tv in their off show home - they wacth nature progmames and colourfull cartoons , i also wacthed a progamme where in auckland zoo the orangutan was given a tape of orangutans hand rearing their offspring - this worked with the result of the mother looking after the off- spring - this means that t.v to apes works like it is with us

31-07-2007

In Giant panda breeding centres in china, they have given male pandas video of panda's mating to get them stimulated and it seems to work.

31-07-2007

lol 'PANDA PORNO"

my earlier post refers
03-08-2007

I can accept that gorillas , orangs etc can probably understand a TV show that is about wildlife thart is relavent to them , but the thought of watching a Russian soap opera or something else ........