Apps for Apes - Apple

[Trini Hookah]

Apps for Apes will give orangutans at the Toronto Zoo iPads to play with

Ross Johnston Feb 28, 2012 – 3:03 PM ET | Last Updated: Feb 28, 2012 3:15 PM ET


Apps for Apes, the brainchild of David Zimmerman and Orangutan Outreach, aims to give the primates a creative outlet to create art or music on, and maybe even to Skype with their relatives in zoos across North America

Apes at the Toronto Zoo could soon be playing Angry Birds with the rest of us. Apps for Apes, a program developed by the non-profit organization Orangutan Outreach, uses Apple’s iPad to stimulate creativity and alleviate boredom in primates.

Currently in the development stages at the Milwaukee Zoo, the program is being shopped around and has caught the eye of Zoo officials here in Toronto.

“We’re really trying to get in there,” said. Richard Zimmerman, executive director of Orangutan Outreach. “Toronto has a fantastic facility and we’re trying to get things moving. Our problem right now is donations. We’re bottle-necked at the moment and really need more iPads.”

Mr. Zimmerman says that the program is actively seeking the donation of gently used iPads from both the public and private sector. Anyone is encouraged to donate their old iPads, but there’s one company our there who can really make a difference.

“The mother of all support would be Apple itself,” Mr. Zimmerman said. “That would allow us to accelerate the program, get the iPads to zoos and really just grow the program.”

Orangutans at the Toronto Zoo may soon be monkeying around with Apple’s iconic iPad as a way to stimulate them and foster “primate play dates.”


Obsolete first generation iPads are perfect for the orangutans to practice with.

Source:http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/28/apps-for-apes-will-give-orangutans-at-the-toronto-zoo-ipads-to-play-with/

[iDynamic]

Good post man .....it's only a matter of time before they adapt to it

[DTAC]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

[stev]

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

[Devourment]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

[nismotrinidappa]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

[suffocate69]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

LOL Wut?

[Trini Hookah]

DTAC you really missed the point there buddy, Apple are donating the outdated iPads that are off the market to assist with the program - how does that affect the poverty and starvation problems in Africa?

[W2J]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!

[Ronaldo95163]

[metalgear2095]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

how so? why children in Africa?

[Strauss]

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

[bigga514]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

You mean North American right, cause it says TORONTO ZOO.

#justsaying.

[bigga514]

DTAC you really missed the point there buddy, Apple are donating the outdated iPads that are off the market to assist with the program - how does that affect the poverty and starvation problems in Africa?

They would like apple to donate, it's people who donating so far read d article. The same donation could have been made to 3rd world classrooms. *kanyeshrug*

[GTcruzer]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

A man equate the children in Africa to orangutans??
De forq dred!!
Not sure what you were really trying to say there! Maybe I'm interpreting it wrong or something.

[pioneer]

I don't see what ya'll beatin up over?...pretty sure plenty people on the beetham have ipads

[Strauss]

I don't see what ya'll beatin up over?...pretty sure plenty people on the beetham have ipads

[Stephon.]

I hate that I have to be reminded of starving kids in Africa every time something happens, I've been reminded of them during the Christmas holidays, during New Years holidays, when Steve Jobs died etc.
Everyone obviously knows about starving children all over the world, but if you expect to put production to a standstill to feed them all (which will probably die young from AIDS anyway) then you can have fun "Not living on this planet anymore"

[crazybalhead]

I don't see what ya'll beatin up over?...pretty sure plenty people on the beetham have ipads

[Stephon.]

I don't see what ya'll beatin up over?...pretty sure plenty people on the beetham have ipads

*right click/saves*

[SR]

how much for an ipad1??

[AllTrac]

Children staving in Africa, millions displaced and many more without an adequate food or water supply and they want to outfit Orangutans with iPads??!! God help us! Only in America.


If the planet becomes any more "American".

wats d point of trying to get monkeys smarter? so they wud fight war? be sent in space? wat?

The concept of science is really lost on you two. Performing experiments like this can help us teach the children in Africa.

RACIST!!!!!

[Strauss]

how much for an ipad1??

US $300 - $400 from used to new. Still holding price.

[Stephon.]

how much for an ipad1??

US $300 - $400 from used to new. Still holding price.

And that's for the 16gb. The b14 of technology imo.

Blackberry Playbook 7-Inch Tablet (64GB) Price: $329.99
The Benz/Audi/VW/

[Strauss]

how much for an ipad1??

US $300 - $400 from used to new. Still holding price.

And that's for the 16gb. The b14 of technology imo.

Blackberry Playbook 7-Inch Tablet (64GB) Price: $329.99
The Benz/Audi/VW/

I'll let you get away with this one, so when I hit you hard in another thread, you know I just giving what's owed