By Dorie Turner, Associated Press ATLANTA Four-year-old Bernas
isn't the computer wizard his mom is, but he's learning. Just
the other day he used his lips and feet to play a game on the
touch-screen monitor as his mom, Madu, swung from vines and
climbed trees. The two Sumatran orangutans at Zoo Atlanta are
playing computer games while researchers study the cognitive
skills of the orange and brown primates. The best part? Zoo
visitors get to watch their every move. The orangutans use a
touch screen built into a tree-like structure that blend in with
their zoo habitat. Visitors watch from a video monitor in front
of the exhibit. "That's so cool," Jeri McCarthy told her three
daughters as Bernas drew a red, blue and yellow picture on the
screen. "He can't get enough!" Zoo officials hope the exhibit
will raise awareness of the rapidly diminishing wild orangutan
population, which is on track to completely disappear in the
next decade, and potentially provide keys to their survival.
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