The Guardian's Jon Henley reports that Apenheul Primate Park in Apeldoorn, the Netherlands is showing Samboja, its 11 year-old female orangutan. photos of potential suitors from around the world. It’s partly a bid to get a better idea of how orangutans choose their mates but also, flying orangutans around from zoo to zoo for dates isn’t cheap and it seems they’re hoping if she likes the photo she’ll like the fellow.
The bigger picture is that this orangu-tinder is part of a larger issue of understanding the emotional relationships. Pretty awesome since for a long time no one wanted to admit they might have any.
The Washington Post's Amy B Wang reported that a zoo in Germany did a similar online dating experiment last year though the “date” didn’t result in any offspring.
They should have tried the human online dating formula: wine and carelessness.
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