Orangutans playing video games

i-ca85ed8a48d652740af507f1172a3cf8-070411_zooAtlanta_vmed.widec.jpgThis story is almost useless without video - which Is why I'm posting it. Can anyone get a video of an Orangutan playing a video game? In any case... Here's the basic story:

In one game, orangutans choose identical photographs or match orangutan sounds with photos of the animals -- correct answers are rewarded with food pellets. Another game lets them draw pictures by moving their hands and other body parts around the screen. Printouts of their masterpieces are on display in the zoo.

The computer games, which volunteers from IBM spent nearly 500 hours developing, test the animals' memory, reasoning and learning, spitting out sheets of data for researchers at the zoo and Atlanta's Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, a partner in the project.

By the way, the animals are in the Atlanta Zoo. So head on over and check them out! (and get some video for us!)

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Donkey Kong ?

thanks guys! you rock!

Great, now they won't get ANYTHING done.

nice! thanks! too bad I can't embed it in a post :(

500 hours! Which side of the bars are the monkeys on?

Sounds like the zoo got screwed out of a lot of money.