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Is it play? Turf-defending aggression? Or the dysfunctional behavior of captive animals?

“You got Donkey Kong on this thing?” A boy at the San Francisco Zoo accidentally dropped his Nintendo DSi XL into the gorilla enclosure, resulting in the corruption of at least a pair of gorillas’ fragile brains. As you can tell from the photography captured from the scene, the gorilla proceeded to pick up the DSi and play around with ...

Know what’s hilarious? A giraffe. Spots, silly animal, big tongue, long neck. Yeah, sounds like an awesome creature to me. Why not make a lamp that pokes fun at a giraffe all while paying equal tribute? Wait, where’d his head go? I don’t know but all of a sudden I can insert a fluorescent bulb into a socket. Let there ...