[...] Willie, his face inches from the glowing screen of an Apple iPad, is engrossed in the gyrations of an animated goldfish. A digital revolution is sweeping the ape house, and now its denizens, formerly preoccupied with classic chimpish activities, are turning their attention to computer offerings originally developed for human toddlers. First in Texas Houston is the first Texas zoo to participate in "Apps for Apes," a program developed by the New York-based primate advocacy group Orangutan Outreach. Willie also enjoys manipulating blobs of virtual paint - great apes can see color - in an artistic game, and ruminating over the sound-generating illustrations in an interactive version of "Alice in Wonderland." A Texas A&M University master's degree candidate who is writing her thesis on how differing ape species, genders and ages relate to the iPad programs, Boostrom said the computers are only one way the zoo tries to keep the ape habitat interesting. For Willie, the youngest of the zoo's 11 chimps, such an arrangement would permit long-range socializing with animals his own age.
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