Zoo tells visitors not to show videos to gorillas

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The sign at the Toronto Zoo
The sign at the Toronto Zoo
(Image credit: Richard Lautens/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

A zoo in Toronto is asking visitors to stop showing mobile phone videos to the facility’s gorillas. The zoo posted signs outside the gorilla enclosure asking visitors not to show photos or videos to the gorillas “as some content can be upsetting and affect their relationships and behaviour within their family”. Hollie Ross, behavioral husbandry supervisor at the zoo, told CP24 that it wants “gorillas to be able to be gorillas”.

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Charlie Watts’ book collection to make history

Books belonging to the late Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts are coming to auction in the “best collection of modern first editions” to go on sale in 20 years, said The Times. A first edition of The Great Gatsby inscribed with a message from the author F Scott Fitzgerald to the “original” protagonist is among the tomes going under the hammer. A live auction will be held at Christie’s on September 28 and an online sale will accept bids between September 15 and 29.

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Chas Newkey-Burden has been part of The Week Digital team for more than a decade and a journalist for 25 years, starting out on the irreverent football weekly 90 Minutes, before moving to lifestyle magazines Loaded and Attitude. He was a columnist for The Big Issue and landed a world exclusive with David Beckham that became the weekly magazine’s bestselling issue. He now writes regularly for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Independent, Metro, FourFourTwo and the i new site. He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books.