Zookeepers at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago say that a teenage male gorilla named Amare is spending so much time looking at visitors’ phones that it’s distracting him from important real-life interactions with his peers.
Chicago Zoo resident Amare is a 16-year-old gorilla, weighing in at a whopping 415 pounds. But the teenage primate has become hooked on something human teenagers are also glued to: their smartphones. Stephen Ross, director at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago, said that Amare had visibly started to enjoy the sight of photos and