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And no, this is not another 'iSheep' joke
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A new initiative of the Miami zoo involves using iPads to communicate with orangutans.
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We know that the news title sounds a bit weird and may be part of a joke but we assure you that it is not. Miami's Jungle Island zoo have started to use iPads to communicate with orangutans as a new way to do it without using sign language.
According to cnet: People who work at Miami's Jungle Island zoo have figured out a hi-tech way to communicate with orangutans. Rather than using old-fashioned sign language, they're using iPads.
According to the Associated Press, trainers are working specifically with 8-year-old twin orangutans helping them draw, play games, and work on new vocabulary as part of a mental stimulus program.
"Our young ones pick up on it. They understand it. It's like, `Oh I get this,'" Linda Jacobs, who oversees the program, told the Associated Press. "Our two older ones, they just are not interested. I think they just figure, `I've gotten along just fine in this world without this communication-skill here and the iPad, and I don't need a computer.'"
The iPad software that Jacobs is using with the apes was initially made for people with autism. Last year, there were reports that autistic children were able to use the tablet for gaming and making puzzles and also for communicating ideas to family members who were unable to understand the children's needs.
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