A Dutch zoo has created Tinder For Orangutans! As silly as that sounds, it’s actually an experiment to see how female orangutans choose their mates.

“Evy van Berlo, an evolutionary psychologist, says that earlier tablet tests with bonobos – who, along with chimpanzees, are the closest living relatives to humans – had shown they demonstrated heightened interest in photos containing ‘positive stimuli’, such as other bonobos mating or grooming one another.”  Read more about the Tinder experiment here.

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