Apparently, It’s Had Some Effect
The chimps have displayed plenty of interest in what their neighbors, and the humans that care for them, are up to. Zoo workers state that chimps have brought food close to the camera to show off to the other group of chimps or even just watch humans from the other zoo cleaning their neighbors’ enclosures.
“At the beginning they approached the screen with defensive or threatening gestures, there was interaction,” Gabriela Linhartova, curator of primates and carnivores at Dvůr Králové, said. “It has since moved into the mode of ‘I am in the movies’ or ‘I am watching TV.’ When they see some tense situations, it gets them up off the couch, like us when we watch a live sport event.”
