36 Perfectly Timed Animal Shots. Orangutans use Apple iPads for fun and 'mental stimulus' Since Apple launched the iPad, it’s become integrated into our daily lives.
It's not merely a communication or entertainment tool – the iPad is used by commercial pilots to access flight plans and cut down on paper, by enterprises (such Ford where salesmen use sales apps) and in education to encourage interactive learning. The latest creative use of the iPad is to study animal behaviour in orangutans. The Smithsonian National Zoo in Washington is one of 12 zoos around the world that have joined a program called 'Apps for Apes', which aims to enrich the lives of captive primates by offering them fun activities using old, donated iPads. For two short periods every week, zookeepers hold up iPads and the orangutans reach through enclosure bars to play cognitive games, drawing programs, musical instruments and even watch TV programs with the help of simple gestures.
"Apps for Apes fits perfectly in this new era of zoo keeping," said Becky Malinsky, great ape keeper at the National Zoo. Hello World! I Do Dog Tricks. My pet. Dog Stories. Ancient Domesticated Dog Skull Found in Siberian Cave. If you think a Chihuahua doesn't have much in common with a Rottweiler, you might be on to something. An ancient dog skull, preserved in a cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia for 33,000 years, presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with equally ancient dog remains from a cave in Belgium, indicates that domestication of dogs may have occurred repeatedly in different geographic locations rather than with a single domestication event.
In other words, man's best friends may have originated from more than one ancient ancestor, contrary to what some DNA evidence previously has indicated. "Both the Belgian find and the Siberian find are domesticated species based on morphological characteristics," said Greg Hodgins, a researcher at the University of Arizona's Accelerator Mass Spectrometry Laboratory and co-author of the study that reports the find. Chameleon was frightened by iphone (what he saw?) Another Sweet Moment.