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This week's question: Keepers at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo say teenage gorilla Amare has become so fascinated with images on visitors' smartphones that he no longer pays attention to other gorillas. What would you call an app that caters to apes?
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THE WINNER: "FaceTime for Bonzo"
Dave DiGregorio, West Hollywood, California
SECOND PLACE: "WhatsApe"
Andrea Girolamo, Hudson, New York
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THIRD PLACE: "Chimpstagram"
Matt Wood, Valatie, New York
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
"Junglebook"
Albert Deshler, Dunstable, Massachusetts
"PriMeet"
Norm Carrier, Flat Rock, North Carolina
"SimianSays"
Joel Nelson, Goleta, California
"SimianCity"
Peter Gordon, Great Neck, New York
"Simian's Rainbow"
Sorelle Baker, Highland Park, Illinois
"The Missing LinkedIn"
Bruce Carlson, Alexandria, Virginia
"OranguTikTok"
Ken Liebman, Williston, Vermont
"Chimpanzoom"
Lidia Zidik, Reading, Pennsylvania
"Gruntr"
John P. Swing III, Fredericksburg, Virginia
"BumblefortheJungle"
Dan Martaus, Austin, Texas
"OrangaTinder"
Levi Buffington, Winter Springs, Florida
"Alibababoon"
Cindy Kalinoski, York, Pennsylvania
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