Kicker: Gorilla screen time

NICK EICHER, HOST: Walk around any city or airport and you find people glued to their devices. Really doesn’t matter where. Even the Zoo. Apparently people have taken to showing videos to the gorillas, and it’s becoming a problem.

In Chicago, the Sun Times reports the Zoo put up a rope line to keep people further away from the glass, because the gorillas were becoming so distracted by people’s phones.

Same thing up in Toronto. There’s a sign at the gorilla habitat saying JUST DON’T!

Zookeeper Hollie Ross told CP24 news that the gorillas are so fixated on screens, it’s changing their behavior. And not in good ways:

HOLLIE ROSS: We have a male gorilla Nasser, who seems really enthralled with videos that certain guests would show to him. And so we just want the gorillas to be able to be gorillas.

Sounds to me like the gorillas have been watching us more closely than we thought.

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Monkey see, monkey do.

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