Nonja
Nonja (born April 21, 1976 in Vienna † May 22, 2018 ibid) was a female orangutan from the Schönbrunn Zoo in Vienna , who achieved fame because she painted pictures and because photographs that she made with a digital camera were in Internet could be visited. She was the first monkey in the world to have a user account set up on Facebook .
Biography and attempts at painting
Nonja was born in Schönbrunn Zoo. She grew up there with her mother, but was also raised by an animal keeper . Employees of the zoo offered Nonja that time still without a partner in their enclosure lived in the ordinary employment program for apes brushes, paints and paper and coupled successful time actions with rewards for the monkeys. Weekly painting lessons were held in the presence of the zookeeper. As the press reported, Nonja showed an individual preference for splashing paint over paper. The painting lessons ended when Nonja was merged with the male orangutan Vladimir (* 1974, moved from Moscow to Amsterdam in 1988, has lived in Vienna since June 18, 1991) in 1998. Nonja made a total of over 250 paintings . A lover paid 28,000 shillings (over 2000 euros) for one of them.
Nonja was the morning of May 22, 2018 veterinarians euthanized because she suffered from severe kidney weakness and her condition deteriorated more and more.
The discovery of technology
The photography project arose from a marketing idea by Samsung , which had developed a Facebook-compatible camera. This should be so easy to use "that every monkey can do it". The special camera, which Nonja liked to use as a toy and projectile, was surrounded by a thick protective cover.
An incentive for the monkey to take pictures was created by automatically jumping a raisin out of the camera every time it was activated.
Nonja was not interested in the photographs herself and sometimes left the camera to her fellows in the enclosure, two other orangutan females and the orangutan male Vladimir, as a toy.
Cult around Nonja
The “Café Nonja” in Schönbrunn Zoo, where the paintings of the female monkey are exhibited, is named after him. At the end of 2009, over 50,000 people registered as friends on Nonja's Facebook page. A large part of the users addressed themselves directly to Nonja with delighted comments.
According to the press spokesman for Samsung, the plan "worked out well" due to the considerable media coverage, while the zoo received a donation for its monkey house for his work and the zookeepers were happy to have a new toy in the monkey house.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Pongo Pygmaeus . ( Memento of the original from January 15, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Homepage of Schönbrunn Zoo, accessed on December 4, 2009.
- ↑ a b World-famous monkey Nonja from Schönbrunn Zoo has died
- ↑ Orangutan goes online: Nonja on Facebook ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Wiesbaden Courier from December 3, 2009.
- ↑ a b Malende Nonja is 30 years old - ORF from April 21, 2006.
- ^ "Nonja": A monkey on Facebook - Nachrichten.at, accessed on December 4, 2009.
- ↑ Quoted from: Jarka Kubsowa: For a handful of raisins. In: Financial Times Deutschland , December 4, 2009, p. 32
- ↑ Nonja photographs in the Vienna Zoo: Orangutan shows snapshots on the Internet. Rheinische Post online, December 3, 2009.
- ↑ Europe's best zoo with a new orangutan house ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Homepage Wien.info, accessed on December 4, 2009.
- ↑ Nonja's Facebook page, December 7, 2009, 3 p.m .: 50,686 fans.
- ↑ Financial Times Deutschland, December 4, 2009. p. 32.
