Chimpanzees at Czech zoo get screen time amid virus lockdown

A chimpanzee watches a screen set at the enclosure at the Safari Park in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic. To enrich everyday life of their chimpanzees amid a strict lockdown, the zoo park has installed a big screen in their enclosure to broadcast for them what fellow chimpanzees are doing at a zoo in Brno. — AP

PRAGUE: A zoo in the Czech Republic is trying out a new way for its bored chimpanzees to monkey around during the coronavirus lockdown: face time with other primates.

The Safari Park in the northern town of Dvur Kralove installed a big screen in their enclosure to show them a livestream of what their fellow chimpanzees are doing on the other side of the country at a zoo in the southern city of Brno.