San Francisco, A City Where Even Gorillas Play Video Games!

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The beautiful city of San Francisco is known for many cool and wacky things - But a Gorilla playing with a Nintendo DS? That's got to top the list!

The incident occurred on August 9th, when a young visitor to the San Francisco Zoo, accidently dropped his DS console inside the Gorilla den. Bawang, a Western Lowland gorilla that resides there, immediately scooted over to examine the colorful red device.

What followed can only be described as hilarious. Bawang started to fiddle around with the buttons as if she were playing a game (and maybe she was). Soon her pesky one-year old son, Hansai was her feet, begging to take a look at the interesting looking box.

However, not wanting to expose his young mind to video games, Bawang staunchly refused, instead walking away with it firmly tucked inside her mouth (eww!)

Luckily for the console's young owner, she soon tired of it and was happy to swap it for an apple - the red juicy kind, offered to her by the zookeeper. A slightly battered, extremely slobbered on, but still working gaming device was handed back to the little boy - who hopefully learnt that the zoo may not be the best place to bring a gaming device.

The best part is, that professional photographer Christina Spicuzza happened to there and was able to take some amazing photos and video footage of the fun incident!

sources: nbcnewyork.com, dailymail.co.uk

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  • nikukyu
    nikukyuabout 10 years
    Wow! lol pretty cool!
    • arueben
      aruebenabout 10 years
      wow there about as smart as us
      • meabout 10 years
        I am going to say one thing WOW LUCKY!
        • mike monabout 10 years
          good cool
          • 56steps1
            56steps1over 10 years
            This article is about a gorilla that plays video games on a Nintendo ds I find it interesting because gorillas have the brain capacity to play video games I agree that gorillas are very smart
          • jaksjklalkover 10 years
            i bet he was on the home screen
            • jaksjklalkover 10 years
              who drops there ds in a zoo animal cage
              • kratos24
                kratos24over 10 years
                i didn't now that they were so smart and awesome
                • kratos24
                  kratos24over 10 years
                  awesome they are so smart
                  • sierraover 10 years
                    haha thats so cool