It’s amazing how fast technology has progressed to the point that new words and a new sub-culture came into being in society.
Thanks to the Internet and more powerful smartphones, words such as “selfie” and “live streaming” have become buzzwords among young and old alike.
Watch this chimpanzee make funny faces below!
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It used to be that whenever we want to be silly, we would do so in the privacy of our homes perhaps with only a few family members and close friends bearing witness to our ludicrous antics. The same goes for singing in the shower.
Now, you can easily take a selfie wearing ridiculous outfits or someone can take a video of your drunk dancing and upload it for the world to see in minutes. This is how viral sensations are born but this is also how one’s most personal scandal’s get scattered for everyone to see.
But all those considerations have no bearing on Tojo, a chimpanzee in Twycross Zoo in England. She loves the look of her own reflection, just like all selfie addicts out there, and once she saw that she was on camera, she went to town making the funniest faces in front of an amused crowd.
She even has a broken CD in her hand that she’s carrying around like a prop and at the end of her performance, she even applauds herself. Bravo to her for that!
Eighteen chimps are housed in Twycross Zoo in Atherstone. Their indoor habitat spans three stories high and features outdoor climbing frames that were designed to most closely resemble what the chimps would use in the wild.
Unfortunately, chimpanzees are rapidly facing extinction thanks to unbridled human greed that sees people poaching these poor apes and destroying the chimpanzees’ habitats for farmland and lumber.
Because they are genetically close to humans, chimpanzees can also suffer from similar ailments and diseases that humans have to contend with.
Twycross Zoo leads the way when it comes to the Ape Heart Project. It’s a 10-year study that seeks to find out why apes tend to develop heart disease, especially when in captivity. The zoo works closely with the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at Nottingham University as well as with an international team of cardiologists and veterinarians.
Several countries across Europe support the research program and it’s endorsed by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The program’s goal is to find a way to provide better care to all captive great apes across Europe.
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