London/Vienna (afp, reuters) - CEB has succeeded in hiring famous Orangutan Nonja as a permanent correspondent and press photographer for the gazette's coverage of central Europe.
The 33-year-old furry photographer is winning already fans on social networking website Facebook for pictures of her daily life as an orangutan in a Vienna zoo.Nonja's photos, taken with a camera that dispenses raisins as she snaps, have won over 900 fans on Facebook since the zoo launched an online photo album on Tuesday (Dec 1).
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 ape doesn't care about the pictures, they are just an accidental side product," zoo spokesperson Gerhard Kasbauer told Reuters. "They just know that when they press the button, a raisin pops out."
The Vienna Zoo set up the project to help keep Nonja and her three hairy ape friends entertained in their enclosure. Check out the online album here:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Nonja/190010092116
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