老猩猩作画赢得艺术比赛第一名获一万美元奖励# Animals - 动物园
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一只37岁退休的路易斯安那州实验室老猩猩，用它的舌头沾染颜料所作的画，赢得全美
猩猩艺术比赛第一名获一万美元奖励。
真心觉得这个老猩猩的画有意思，如果不知道是猩猩舌头沾染画的，你说这是什么现代
抽象派艺术大师的画，我也信了。
JANET McCONNAUGHEY16 hours ago
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A painting by a 37-year-old Louisiana primate who
applies color with his tongue instead of a brush has been deemed the finest
chimpanzee art in the land.
Brent, a retired laboratory animal, was the top vote-getter in an online
chimp art contest organized by the Humane Society of the United States,
which announced the results Thursday. He won $10,000 for the Chimp Haven
sanctuary in northwest Louisiana.
A Chimp Haven spokeswoman said Brent was unavailable for comment Thursday. "
I think he's asleep," Ashley Gordon said.
But as the society said on its website, "The votes are in, so let the pant
hooting begin!" — pant hooting being the characteristic call of an excited
chimp.
Five other sanctuaries around the country competed, using paintings created
during "enrichment sessions," which can include any of a wide variety of
activities and playthings.
..View gallery."
This image provided by The Humane Society of the United States shows artwork
created by Brent, a chi …
Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall chose her favorite from photographs she
was sent. That painting, by Cheetah, a male at Save the Chimps in Fort
Pierce, Fla., won $5,000 as Goodall's choice and another $5,000 for winning
second place in online voting, Humane Society spokeswoman Nicole Ianni said.
Ripley from the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Fla., won third place and
$2,500.
More than 27,000 people voted, Ianni said in a news release. The
organization is not giving vote totals "to keep the focus on the positive
work of the sanctuaries and not necessarily the 'winner,'" she said in an
email. The sanctuaries care for chimpanzees retired from research,
entertainment and the pet trade. Chimp Haven is the national sanctuary for
those retired from federal research.
Other submitted paintings were by Jamie, a female at Chimpanzee Sanctuary
Northwest in Cle Elum, Wash.; Jenny, a female at Primate Rescue Center in
Nicholasville, Ky.; and Patti, a female at Chimps Inc. in Bend, Ore.
A profile of Brent on the Humane Society's website says he has lived at
Chimp Haven since 2006, is protective of an even older chimp at the
sanctuary and "loves to laugh and play." It continues, "Brent paints only
with his tongue. His unique approach and style, while a little unorthodox,
results in beautiful pieces of art."
Cathy Willis Spraetz, Chimp Haven's president and CEO, said she chose a
painting by Brent partly because of that unusual method. She said she later
held a canvas up to the mesh of his indoor cage so she could watch him at
work.
Some other chimps use brushes or point to the colors they want on the canvas
, but Brent comes up to smush pre-applied blobs of child-safe tempera paints
with his tongue, she said.
"If we handed the canvas to them where it was on the inside, they might not
want to hand it back," she said. "They might throw it around and step on it."
猩猩艺术比赛第一名获一万美元奖励。
真心觉得这个老猩猩的画有意思，如果不知道是猩猩舌头沾染画的，你说这是什么现代
抽象派艺术大师的画，我也信了。
JANET McCONNAUGHEY16 hours ago
.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A painting by a 37-year-old Louisiana primate who
applies color with his tongue instead of a brush has been deemed the finest
chimpanzee art in the land.
Brent, a retired laboratory animal, was the top vote-getter in an online
chimp art contest organized by the Humane Society of the United States,
which announced the results Thursday. He won $10,000 for the Chimp Haven
sanctuary in northwest Louisiana.
A Chimp Haven spokeswoman said Brent was unavailable for comment Thursday. "
I think he's asleep," Ashley Gordon said.
But as the society said on its website, "The votes are in, so let the pant
hooting begin!" — pant hooting being the characteristic call of an excited
chimp.
Five other sanctuaries around the country competed, using paintings created
during "enrichment sessions," which can include any of a wide variety of
activities and playthings.
..View gallery."
This image provided by The Humane Society of the United States shows artwork
created by Brent, a chi …
Chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall chose her favorite from photographs she
was sent. That painting, by Cheetah, a male at Save the Chimps in Fort
Pierce, Fla., won $5,000 as Goodall's choice and another $5,000 for winning
second place in online voting, Humane Society spokeswoman Nicole Ianni said.
Ripley from the Center for Great Apes in Wauchula, Fla., won third place and
$2,500.
More than 27,000 people voted, Ianni said in a news release. The
organization is not giving vote totals "to keep the focus on the positive
work of the sanctuaries and not necessarily the 'winner,'" she said in an
email. The sanctuaries care for chimpanzees retired from research,
entertainment and the pet trade. Chimp Haven is the national sanctuary for
those retired from federal research.
Other submitted paintings were by Jamie, a female at Chimpanzee Sanctuary
Northwest in Cle Elum, Wash.; Jenny, a female at Primate Rescue Center in
Nicholasville, Ky.; and Patti, a female at Chimps Inc. in Bend, Ore.
A profile of Brent on the Humane Society's website says he has lived at
Chimp Haven since 2006, is protective of an even older chimp at the
sanctuary and "loves to laugh and play." It continues, "Brent paints only
with his tongue. His unique approach and style, while a little unorthodox,
results in beautiful pieces of art."
Cathy Willis Spraetz, Chimp Haven's president and CEO, said she chose a
painting by Brent partly because of that unusual method. She said she later
held a canvas up to the mesh of his indoor cage so she could watch him at
work.
Some other chimps use brushes or point to the colors they want on the canvas
, but Brent comes up to smush pre-applied blobs of child-safe tempera paints
with his tongue, she said.
"If we handed the canvas to them where it was on the inside, they might not
want to hand it back," she said. "They might throw it around and step on it."
