Danish zoo has developed a
'Tinder' for orangutans in order to track mating preferences.
They have shown a female orangutan potential mates on an iPad to see if she will choose one in order to improve her mating chances.
If she seems to prefer one over another, they will choose that mate to come over from an international zoo, which could be as far away as Singapore.
The four-year experiment is called "Tinder for orangutans" and the Apenheul primate park in Apeldoorn will let 11-year-old Samboja look at potential partners from an international breeding scheme.
Emotion is an important factor in the lives of primates Credit: AP Photo/Joshua Paul
A behavioural biologist at the zoo,
told Dutch media that they hope to gain further insight into how female orangutans make mating choices.
He said: "Often, animals have to be taken back to the zoo they came from without mating.
"Things don’t always go well when a male and a female first meet".
Watch | Orangutan tenderly kisses pregnant woman's baby bump 00:31
The "Tinder" experiment is part of a broader look at the part emotions play in primate relationships.
The biologist said: "Emotion is of huge evolutionary importance. If you don’t interpret an emotion correctly in the wild, it can be the end of you."
In past experiments, zookeepers have shown bonobos and orangutans pictures of their peers on a touch-screen
device.
In some pictures, the primates were shown with neutral expressions. In others, they were shown with angry or happy expressions. They found the animals were alert to the emotions of their peers.
One problem with the "Tinder" program is they haven't found an
orangutan-proof tablet yet; when Samboja was handed an iPad, she immediately destroyed it.
She has been shown mates by a zookeeper behind a screen, but they are hoping to primate-proof a tablet so she can hold it herself.
this time they only missed by about a 1000 miles 
I usuallys gets dv stuff da next day 
