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.
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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
A chimpanzee watches a screen set at the enclosure at the Safari Park in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic. The Safari Park launched the experimental project to give the chimpanzees somebody to watch and give them some fun after crowds of visitors disappeared when the zoo was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic on Dec 18, 2020. — AP
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. — AP
Hlavka said the chimpanzees miss people and can get bored. Hlavka said the youngest female, ‘M’, seems to be the chimpanzee to get the most excited about watching the other chimpanzees at the other zoo. — AP
A chimpanzee watches a screen set at the enclosure at the Safari Park in Dvur Kralove, Czech Republic. After a week, the zoo will evaluate the experiment and decide whether it should continue, possibly until the end of March. — AP
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