摘要：
伦敦动物园饲养的一群厚脸皮的松鼠猴对游客们的手机总是表现出格外高的兴趣，动物园管理人员不得不对它们进行“特殊教育”，令其今后对手机要退避三舍。
A troop of mischievous monkeys at London Zoo has had to be retrained after showing too much interest in visitors' mobile phones, officials said
据法新社4月5日报道，伦敦动物园哺乳动物馆馆长马尔科姆·菲茨帕特里克当日说：“它们很快就学会了不去碰那些手机。如今它们又回到过去那样，靠睡觉和找食打发时光。“特殊教育”的过程很简单——管理员将一种松鼠猴不喜欢的粘性物质涂抹在废旧手机上，防止猴子们再去抓游客手机。以往，每当游客们走在没栅栏的中央通道上，掏出手机给旁边的猴子拍照时，淘气的猴子们总是无法克制住对这些既会唱歌又能闪光的电子玩意的好奇心而动手动脚。
松鼠猴原来的栖息地在南非，而那里的野外生存环境正受到威胁。伦敦动物园与其他一些英国动物园正试图增加园内动物的种类。这条两边没有栅栏的中央通道便是去年早些时候对游客开放的，目的是模仿森林的环境。
Visitors who held out the phones to take pictures or video of the squirrel monkeys in their no-barrier enclosure found the inquisitive primates could not resist the devices' ring tones and bright lights.
A short training programme using old mobile phones covered in a sticky substance the monkeys dislike was then developed to prevent the animals trying to grab the phones.
Malcolm Fitzpatrick, curator of mammals at the Zoological Society of London, said: "They soon learned not to touch the phones. They are back to their usual pastimes of sleeping and foraging now."
Squirrel monkeys are native to South America where their status in the wild is threatened. They are used for biomedical research, as pets, and for bait and food. London Zoo, along with other zoos in England, is currently involved in breeding programmes aimed at increasing numbers of the species. Opened early last year, the new walk-through enclosure at the zoo has been designed to mimic the forests of Bolivia.
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