FOXNews.com: Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate

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Orangutans at Miami zoo use iPads to communicate May 9th 2012, 08:42 MIAMI –  The 8-year-old twins love their iPad. They draw, play games and expand their vocabulary. Their family's teenagers also like the hand-held computer tablets, too, but the clan's elders show no interest. The orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island apparently are just like people when it comes to technology. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with computers and apes, letting its six orangutans use an iPad to communicate and as part of a mental stimulus program. Linda Jacobs, who oversees the program, hopes the devices will eventually help bridge the gap between humans and the endangered apes. Jacobs says she began letting the orangutans use iPads last summer, based on the suggestion of someone who had used the devices with dolphins.

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