British and American researchers have found that chimpanzees can master hunting for hidden fruit in a virtual reality video game.
The study, led by Matthias Allritz and Josep Call from the University of St Andrews in the UK and Francine Dolins at the University of Michigan-Dearborn in the United States, found that chimpanzees used landscape features for better orientation while searching for virtual fruit in the game.
The University of St Andrews and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, said in statements obtained on Monday, June 27, that using touchscreen technology, six chimpanzees living in a zoo had learned to find their way to a distant virtual tree with different types of fruit underneath it.
