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Orangutan in Swedish zoo can predict taste of new drink, just like humans
•An orangutan in a Swedish zoo can tell whether a specific new juice mix will taste nice, without having sampled the drink before, by recombining relevant memories from the past, scientists have found. Only humans were previously thought to have this ability
Aww! Watch this male orangutan adopt and play with three baby tiger cubs
Fp Staff •An male orangutan in Myrtle Beach Safari, South Carolina has adopted three tiger cubs, becoming their "surrogate mother"
Tech-savy Orangutans switch to iPads to communicate
Fp Archives •The orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island are totally into iPads. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with computers and apes, letting its six orangutans use an iPad to communicate and as part of a mental stimulus program.
Tech-savy Orangutans switch to iPads to communicate
Fp Archives •The orangutans at Miami's Jungle Island are totally into iPads. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with computers and apes, letting its six orangutans use an iPad to communicate and as part of a mental stimulus program.