- MOSCOW (AP) - A plan to educate a group of orangutans on the joys of
family life by watching TV backfired after the apes became more interested
in the tube than each other, The Moscow Times reported Tuesday. The newspaper
said keepers at the St. Petersburg Zoo rigged up a TV outside the cage
of orangutans Monika and Rabu to show them videos on being good parents.
They took the step after the apes had a baby, Ramon, in November, but then
started to neglect their offspring. Rabu, the male orangutan, became so
engrossed in watching TV that he started to ignore his mate, Monika, who
became upset over his neglect, the paper said. "We'll reduce the time
of TV watching in order to keep the family together," zoo director
Ivan Korneyev was quoted as saying.
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