Orangutan Takes Pics, Shares via Facebook
The Vienna Zoo handed over a digital camera to an orangutan.
The UK's Mail Online reports that the Vienna Zoo has handed over a digital camera to one of its "inmates," a 33-year-old orangutan with a flair for photography. Naturally, this is a stunt to bring visitors to the zoo, offering the luring pictures online via the zoo's Facebook page. But apparently this is no monkey business, as the site has already generated more than 8,500 fans since the album launched on Tuesday.
Since the orangutan, named Nonja, obviously doesn't have access to a PC and the Internet, the zoo is allowing her to use the Samsung ST 1000. This camera has a point-and-shoot feature that automatically uploads the photos to Facebook. The camera was originally released over the summer outside the U.S., and features GPS, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth.
While the idea is certainly entertaining (although it doesn't top the live Africam), Nonja isn't taking her photos without a little help. The Mail Online reports that the camera has been modified to dispense a raisin whenever she presses the shutter button. Obviously, Nonja won't sit around and wait for the perfect shot, but rather will take random images to get a quick snack.
To see Nonja and her photo skills in action, check her out on Facebook here. Hopefully, we won't see any hairy ass shots.
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It's so easy a Orangutan can do it!
I'm a monkey, and I'm a PC.
Using animals for making a bucks or 2... humanity have sunk low... so low that nothing can be under it.
Using animals for making a bucks or 2... humanity have sunk low... so low that nothing can be under it.
Lol, I know, what have we humans become in this modern age!?
Welcome to 3000 BC.
I got disappointed when I found out the camera automatically uploaded instead of the Orangutan.
i think it would be really cool if they DID set Nonja up with a PC and let her interact with other or.s in other zoos. to hell with what WE want to see on facebook, give her some feedback (besides raisins) for crapsake. Maybe introduce a smell-generator for pheromones. We should quit looking INto the zoo (including and especially our own)and start looking out anyway...
I'm a monkey, and I'm a PC.
I would put it the other way around, but you're right...
hint: this is the same person, no funny rotten apple ad in the background
I got disappointed when I found out the camera automatically uploaded instead of the Orangutan.
They just didn't get their vi$hta sp2+ (aka $even) license yet...
A camera so simple a monkey could use it xD
Good marketing strategy... yeah, right
BUT CAN THE ORANGUTAN PLAY CRYSIS??????????
Using animals for making a bucks or 2... humanity have sunk low... so low that nothing can be under it.
Circuses are way older than the roman empire pal.
Cute. There are some good pics she took.
What if it runs out of raisins? Smash!
Using animals for making a bucks or 2... humanity have sunk low... so low that nothing can be under it.
Really??? People have been using animals for profit since the beginning of time. People have used mules, horses, donkeys and oxen for all sorts of farming tasks. What about raising cattle or chickens for food. They're stupid animals, they're not people.
Now, I don't believe in mistreating animals or harming them for your personal amusement like Michael Vick but there's nothing wrong with using them for what they were made for. I seriously doubt this monkey feels mistreated by getting a new toy to play with that dispenses goodies.
They should give her a Nintendo DS with a Virtual Monkey boyfriend.
Everyone, orangutans are not monkeys. They are apes!
I'm going to modify my camera to give me raisins every time I press the shutter button too.
Using animals for making a bucks or 2... humanity have sunk low... so low that nothing can be under it.
Ever heard of something called a grocery store? Ever had wool socks?
Giving an animal raisins to take randoms pictures that we can look at is so much worse than eating the thing....
Using animals for making a bucks or 2... humanity have sunk low... so low that nothing can be under it.
I dont blame the zoo for trying to raise money. Most zoos are a public service to the community and to conservation.
Are all other non-for-profit and charitable organizations "so low that nothing can be under it" as well to you?
Twit.
heh, this about sums up what I think of people who thing social networking is cool and the greatest thing since sliced bread.
roflmao
cheap advertising campaign to generate revenue.
This simply cheapens the value of good photography and photographers alike. Reinforces the notion that even monkeys can take pictures. sad state for humanity. The Zoo should think twice before allowing stunts like these, since we all know the zoo is run by incompetents and are trying anything to lure people in. Zoo management should be put in the pens as these orangutans since that is where they belong. What a disappointment since we all know that cameras don't take good pictures... monkeys do.
This simply cheapens the value of good photography and photographers alike. Reinforces the notion that even monkeys can take pictures. sad state for humanity. The Zoo should think twice before allowing stunts like these, since we all know the zoo is run by incompetents and are trying anything to lure people in. Zoo management should be put in the pens as these orangutans since that is where they belong. What a disappointment since we all know that cameras don't take good pictures... monkeys do.
How many raisins can they stuff into the camera to dispense to the ape?
(this is a joke; no technical corrections, please)