Baby bonobo Teco plays with iPad

Baby bonobo Teco, born June 1 at Great Ape Trust, enjoys playing with the children's apps on iPad. Here he's seen with scientist Dr. Sue Savage-Rumbaugh. Teco has both bonobo and human caregivers at Great Ape Trust, a scientific research facility in Des Moines that studies culture, language, tools and intelligence.

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[vondellyeah]

Oh, the digital generation. Just wait until he starts dying his hair and running up the phone bills texting all night.

[ahonestwoman]

Cute!!

[seethroughskin]

That must be the best job ever, looking after little baby bonobo's.

[kyloyoyo]

@J1zzardOfOz hey i read news about this and the found that baby abondond

[J1zzardOfOz]

@wollin20 fuck you, i want to train an ape like this just so i can teach it about despair and kill its family infront of it and then release it and track it !!!omg. i have such the urge, just gave my life a viscious goal!! fuck yes fuck yes. would be like tracking a ugly ass human, bet it screams like one to

[att20ful]

He's got effort.

[Nerdicaful]

Wild animals this. Wild animals that. Call the wahmbulence. I support animal research, especially research in chimp and bonobo behavior. It does more than teach us about other species. It teaches us about ourselves.