{"id":16060,"date":"2010-04-27T08:10:16","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/photo-safari-%e2%80%93-orangutans-part-3-not-exactly-rocket-science\/"},"modified":"2010-04-27T08:10:16","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T08:10:16","slug":"photo-safari-%e2%80%93-orangutans-part-3-not-exactly-rocket-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/photo-safari-%e2%80%93-orangutans-part-3-not-exactly-rocket-science.php","title":{"rendered":"Photo safari \u2013 Orangutans Part 3 | Not Exactly Rocket Science"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More shots from Perth Zoo&rsquo;s wonderful orangutan exhibit. These apes are incredibly intelligent and it would be terrible to let them sit in an enclosure with nothing to stimulate them. So the zoo runs a &ldquo;behavioural enrichment&rdquo; programme, which essentially means that they leave plenty of toys, items and challenges to keep the orangutans mentally engaged. Here&rsquo;s a sequence of a female making use of one such opportunity, and demonstrating the orangutan&rsquo;s prowess with tools.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/faab6_Orangutan_tool.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1469\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/faab6_Orangutan_tool.jpg\" alt=\"Orangutan_tool\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>She grabs a sturdy stick from the grounds&hellip;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_Orangutan_tool_stickfishing.jpg\"><span><\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1470\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_Orangutan_tool_stickfishing.jpg\" alt=\"Orangutan_tool_stickfishing\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>and walks over to a metal tray, where a keeper has hidden something. She fishes around for the treat. Sometimes, they will take the stick out and lick it to see what&rsquo;s buried.<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_Orangutan_tool_stickprobing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1471\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_Orangutan_tool_stickprobing.jpg\" alt=\"Orangutan_tool_stickprobing\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Nearly there&hellip;<\/p><p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_Orangutan_tool_biscuitWIN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1472\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_Orangutan_tool_biscuitWIN.jpg\" alt=\"Orangutan_tool_biscuitWIN\" width=\"300\" height=\"533\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/a>Got it! A biscuit. OM NOM NOM. Meanwhile, baby watches intently, probably picking up a few tricks or two.<\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-o-matic\/cache\/60001_jo1H0Jvbx-k\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" style=\"padding-left:10px; padding-right: 10px;\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More shots from Perth Zoo&rsquo;s wonderful orangutan exhibit. These apes are incredibly intelligent and it would be terrible to let them sit in an enclosure with nothing to stimulate them. So the zoo runs a &ldquo;behavioural enrichment&rdquo; programme, which essentially &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/astronomy\/photo-safari-%e2%80%93-orangutans-part-3-not-exactly-rocket-science.php\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"limit_modified_date":"","last_modified_date":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.euvolution.com\/futurist-transhuman-news-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}