giraffes are insincere

There is a strange exhilaration that comes from standing so close to a once wild animal, separated not by a fence but by a shallow ditch that you wonder why they don’t cross.  Coming upon the monkey house, however, and seeing the family resemblance of our closest relatives is a little heartbreaking.  They have opposable thumbs!  Not that that makes them any more deserving of compassion than the rhinos or camels or elephants.

(here‘s a great Radiolab program about zoos)

Zoologischer Garten Berlin, 16 August 2010

2 Comments

  1. opposable thumbs!

    yess glad to see you are still loving RadioLab. xxxx!!!!

  2. ben

    that hippo is just so cool

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