Orangutans Suffer From Too Much TV Tuesday, January 5, 1999; 7:10 a.m. EST MOSCOW (AP) -- A plan to educate a group of orangutans on the joys of family life by watching television backfired after the apes became more interested in the tube than each other, The Moscow Times reported today.
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.
© Copyright 1999 The Associated Press
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