Orangutans play video games in Atlanta

Atlanta - Orangutans play video games in Atlanta - Seeing people ranging in age from toddlers to adults and even old, was playing a video game is nothing special. Video games are for all people.

The data will be submitted to the researchers at the zoo and project partners who are members of Atlanta's Center for Behavioral Neuroscience. According to Elliot Albers of the Center for Behavioral Neuroscience, these data help researchers learn about socializing patterns and life of orangutans like mime and facial wrinkles.

However, what if the player is a Sumatran orangutan? In the Atlanta zoo, animal researchers using video games to test the cognitive abilities of Sumatran orangutans, such as the ability to learn, think and remember.

"We hope that these primates will be able to find sources of food more easily," said Albers. Currently two Sumatran orangutans were included in this study. Both orangutan named Bernas four years and its parent, Honey. ABCNews cited new games releases, video game designed specifically orangutan in the form of a touch screen that is planted in a tree-like structure.

The researchers themselves hope, the data collected from these activities can refer to new conservation strategies to save 37 thousand orangutans who live scattered islands of Borneo and Sumatra. "If we know more about the cognitive processes orangutans, we will better know what they need to survive in the wild," said Tara Stoinski, manager of conservation partnerships for the zoo.

In other games, orangutans are led to drawing on the touch screen by moving their hands and other body parts. The results of their images were colorful display for zoo visitors. The interesting part of this study is visitors can watch the games carried orangutan.

The zoo itself forward, this spectacle will raise awareness of the endangered orangutan population, and suggests that it has the intelligence of primates. This study used a computer video game which is a grant from IBM. Volunteers from the 'Big Blue' is spent almost 500 hours in developing this system. In addition to Atlanta, a similar study was also conducted at the National Zoo in Washington DC and Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, USA.

This form is cultivated as closely as possible to the original habitat of orangutans so they feel at home there. In a game, the pairing between primate animal sounds with images such voters. If true, the player gets a food reward.