Scientists have accidentally discovered that a variety of animals monkeys, bears, penguins, and other fauna are very fond of touch computer screens.
It is reported by BBC Future.
Esme, Molly Quinn and Emily live in Austria. Most of all they love mushrooms, corn, strawberries and play games on their plates. These four gamers – Red-footed tortoise contained in the Department of Cognitive Biology, University of Vienna.
The biologist Julia Mueller Paula and her colleagues from the University of Vienna (Austria) tried to find out if the reptile to learn to pass the test for spatial perception, and for this purpose used the touch screen computer. In 50 percent of the bugs had to touch the nose of the blue circle on the right rather than the left side of the screen. In the other half of the test they had to choose, on the contrary, the left rather than the right circle. If the choice was made correctly, pets receive the award.
All subjects learned to use turtle touch screens in the preparatory phase before the start of the experiment. But only two of them is to sort out how to use the screen to earn food.
When similar experiments were conducted with chimpanzees, it was found that using the touch screen, he learned operirirovat about 400 leksigrammami (icons representing words ). Among adult female monkeys have shown more interest in the iPad, than males. Unlike the young, adults have a clear preference for certain programs.
A psychologist Jennifer Vonk has worked with the Himalayan bear, who successfully mastered the account using the tablet, and brilliantly every time received or delicious musical reward when his nose right click the required fields.
iPad also liked the penguins in the aquarium of Long Beach in California. Two males, Jeremy and Newsom, especially strongly imbued with his proposed toy – Game for Cats.
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