Turning monkeys into video game addicts...

I couldn't help think what would happen in my house if we had an orangutan who had been taught to play video games as is being done at the Atlanta Zoo.

Zoo officials hope the exhibit will raise awareness of the rapidly diminishing wild orangutan population, which is on track to completely disappear in the next decade, and potentially provide keys to their survival.

"The more we understand about orangutan's cognitive processes, the more we'll understand about what they need to survive in the wild," said Tara Stoinski, manager of conservation partnerships for the zoo. "It enables us to show the public how smart they are."

Having seen how easily people get addicted to video games, I would not want to be the person that told the monkey it was time to stop as I in humor imagined here in this house the orangutan deciding he was going to play and no one else.

:-)