A California zoo has begun holding regular iPad gaming sessions - for its penguins.
Staffs at the aquarium say its animals love to play a game originally designed for cats. However, instead of using paws, they peck at the screen to try and catch a stray mouse that runs around in the game.
Sara Mandel at the aquarium said she originally tried out the game at home. “It’s a game called Game for Cats - but we found the penguins like to hang out with it. I’d originally bought it for my cats, but I put in down in their enclosure and two of the penguins just started pecking at it.”
The team were astonished when the birds instantly took to the game, chasing an on-screen mouse and managing to score highly on the game by tapping their beaks on the screen. Two of the penguins, Jeremy and Newson, began the game, but Mandel says many of the animals now regularly play. “The animals all started playing with it. We even find they get so absorbed we can examine them. We know they like this game, and we know they like shiny objects - so we are hoping someone will put the two together.”
Zoo volunteer Hugo Ryono first experiments with the game at the zoo in 2013. He had the idea after a discussion with keepers about the iPad app Game for Cats and wondering if it could be used as an improvement aid for the penguins.
Sara Mandel said, “Penguins are very curious and the idea of these birds following a virtual mouse on a screen was just too appealing. Then we set up a penguin video arcade in the exhibit last week. When Jeremy and Newsom noticed the iPad in the exhibit they both waddled on over. Jeremy was the first to try it out but Newsom was the one that really got into it. He set the high score of 1600 for the game.”
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