Czech chimps go wild for zoo Zoom

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Czech chimps go wild for zoo Zoom

Nosotros humans may be tiring of video calls, Zoom birthdays and streamed performances, merely the chimps at two Czech zoos are just starting to enjoy their new alive online linkup.

DVUR KRALOVE, Czech Commonwealth: We humans may exist tiring of video calls, Zoom birthdays and streamed performances, but the chimps at 2 Czech zoos are simply starting to relish their new live online linkup.

To make upward for the lack of interaction with visitors since the attractions closed in December under COVID-19 restrictions, the chimpanzees at Safari Park Dvur Kralove and the troop at a zoo in Brno, 150 km abroad, tin can now watch one another's daily lives on giant screens.

At that place are no mute buttons disasters equally the audio is off, merely in that location has already been plenty of interest in what the afar cousins are up to since the project got under way last week.

"At the beginning they approached the screen with defensive or threatening gestures, there was interaction," said Gabriela Linhartova, ape keeper at Dvur Kralove, 135 km e of Prague.

"Information technology has since moved into the mode of 'I am in the movies' or 'I am watching TV'. When they come across some tense situations, it gets them upward off the couch, like united states of america when we watch a live sport event."

The chimpanzees have as well adopted other human behaviours such equally grabbing goodies similar nuts to chew on while watching the action.

The video conferences, also aired on the safari park's website, volition run daily from viii a.chiliad. until 4 p.g. until the end of March when keepers volition evaluate whether they should proceed.

(Reporting by Jiri Skacel; Writing past January Lopatka; Editing by Alison Williams)

Czech chimps go wild for zoo Zoom

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