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The Digital Zoo explores human emotional relationship with technology and how  to  treat wild animals within the context of a zoo.


The Big 5 can be fed, played with, and nurtured into adulthood. Neglect will lead to a decline in health and ultimately their death. Their well-being can be monitored via SMS in the gallery and via the internet at home.

Each animal is similar to its real life counterpart in terms of age, weight, hunger and lifespan.
Factors determining the animal's health are hunger, happiness and poo (how clean or dirty its cage is) - these help determine its health rate which affect its health overall.

Other factors that influence the animal are sleep, age and the Rand/Dollar exchange rate. If it's up, the animals are happy, if it's down, they're depressed.


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