Snap-happy orangutan wins Facebook fans

Reuters

FACEBOOK FRIEND: Nonja inspects her new larger enclosure at Schoenbrunn Zoo in Vienna. Nonja was born at Schoenbrunn Zoo in 1976.

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Orangutan Nonja's photos, taken with a camera that dispenses raisins as she snaps, have won over 500 fans on Facebook since the zoo launched an online photo album on Tuesday.

Although the slightly blurry images of Nonja's climbing rope, food and companion's shaggy red-brown fur have won lots of admiring comments from fans, the photographer herself is not so interested.

"Of course the apes don't care about the pictures, they are just an accidental side product," zoo spokesman Gerhard Kasbauer told Reuters. "They just know that when they press the button, a raisin pops out."

The Vienna Tiergarten set up the project to help keep Nonja and her three hairy ape friends entertained in their enclosure.

The album is online: here

- Reuters