Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, UK, has installed Sony Bravia 4K TVs into its lemur and langur enclosures to show life-like footage to its primates as part of its ‘Back to the Wild’ program. The charity will trial TV watching on Sony’s 4K TVs as part of this programme in a bid to make langurs more familiar with the new environment.
Y’know those travel shows which let you vicariously explore another country you’ll probably never actually get to visit? Well right now lemurs are doing the exact same thing, except they’re watching these shows on Sony Bravia 4K TVs, and they will actually get to visit these places as it’s part of a program to reintroduce them back into the wild. Lucky them.
The Sony 4K TVs were installed in Port Lympne Reserve in Kent, UK, as part of the animal conservation charity’s world renowned ‘Back to the Wild’ program. The program allowed the primates to watch footage of their natural habitats of Java and Madagascar, all in ultra HD, as a way of getting acclimatized with those surroundings once again before they begin returning to the wild in 2016. Or just because watching animals doing people things is funny. Either way, it’s led to me receiving these photographs of lemurs chilling out and watching other lemurs on TV, so I’m perfectly fine with it.
Discussing the introduction of the Sony 4K TVs, Simon Jeffery, Animal Manager at Port Lympne Reserve, said: “At Port Lympne, we’re always looking for new ways to engage and stimulate our animals. We use all sorts of different techniques to do this to keep our animals as interested and healthy as possible. Sometimes the enrichment can involve scents or tastes or even new climbing features or toys but this time we wanted to try something a little different to see if they would be interested in their natural habitats in the wild.
“While our large enclosures are designed to resemble the animals’ natural habitat as closely as possible, we decided to give our langurs and lemurs an actual peek of areas in the wild that could, potentially, become their new homes. Sony Bravia 4K TV picture quality is so clear and detailed that it’s as close to seeing the rainforest with your own eyes.”
Take a look through the gallery of lemurs watching others lemurs on a 4K TV in the slideshow below:
Image Credit: Sony
4K Lemurs
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4K Lemurs #1
Are lemurs ever not intense? Do they have an off switch?
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4K Lemurs #2
The answer is no. No they do not have an off switch.
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4K Lemurs #3
This is a langur, not a lemur. Langurs also got to watch other langurs in 4K, but I felt this was less noteworthy because, well, look at it.
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4K Lemurs #4
A lemur watching a waterfall in 4K and looking pretty stoked about the whole thing.
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4K Lemurs #5
Here's a langur looking at some mountains in 4K. It'll probably get to climb those mountains next year, while you're stuck doing your miserable desk job. It won't even have to pay for its flight, because it's a monkey and monkeys don't have money because they aren't required to have jobs.
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4K Lemurs #6
The lemur on the far left appears to be doing the whole "checking behind the TV to try to find the lemur on the screen" thing, which will be a familiar sight to dog owners.
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4K Lemurs #7
Here's that langur again, looking at some trees in 4K. Would he have been as interested in this greenery if it would have only appeared in 1080p? I guess Sony didn't want to take that risk.
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4K Lemurs #8
This lemur's only actually looking at the 4K TV in one image. BRAVIA 4K TV's are so photo-realistic that he obviously doesn't even realize that it's there. That, or he's a monkey and therefore has no concept of what a television is.
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4K Lemurs #9
The langur again, this time looking at whatever that thing is. I assume it's a monkey, because everything in this slideshow is.
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4K Lemurs #10
U WOT M8
