“We want gorillas to be gorillas.” The sentence may seem innocuous, but Hollie Ross called to protect animals from her, on the Canadian channel CP24. The behavioral breeding manager at the Toronto Zoo wants visitors to stop showing their phones to primates.
Signs have been installed inside the zoo to prevent tourists from trying to get the gorillas to watch videos or photos. According to the posters, the practice can “disturb and affect your relationships and behavior within your family.”
“The screens would dominate his life”
Amongst the gorilla troop, Nassir was born in 2009. On the Toronto Zoo website, he is described as “the epitome of the video-enthralled teenager.” The primate’s file ensures that “screens would dominate his life if it were up to him.”
Above all, the head of behavioral breeding does not want the behavior of her animals to change because of the content they are viewing. This is a phenomenon that the Chicago Zoo has observed according to an article in the Chicago Sunshine Hours. The park had notably perceived attention disorders in some of its specimens.
This ban is primarily a way for Toronto Park to verify the videos the bouncers watch. “We want to make sure we know the content,” Hollie Ross told CP24. In short, a derivative version of parental control.
Source: BFM TV
