“I’m tired of chasing a monkey.”
Don’t you have days like that too, where you feel like you’re just chasing monkeys? Especially those of you with toddlers? The poor zookeeper at the Tupelo Buffalo Park and Zoo definitely feels your pain.
I read this news article just now, about Oliver, the capuchin monkey at the Tuplelo Buffalo Park and Zoo that rivals Criss Angel and Harry Houdini in his ability to get past locks. As naughty as he apparently is, perhaps his name should have been Marcel.
On a serious note, there’s a lot of discussion about the caging of animals for our viewing pleasure, and I have mixed feelings about it myself. In a way, I wish that all animals could just be left in their natural habitats. But until we humans get over ourselves and the need to build, build, build and procreate with wreckless abandon, we’re destroying their homes, and sadly by the time my grandchildren are around, or my daughter’s grandchildren (God, even just saying that makes me feel like I’m 80) are here, the only place (if the animals aren’t already extinct) they may be able to see these wondrous creatures might be zoos. So I just don’t know.
Of course, now the disease fearful part of me starts to think of that scene in the Outbreak where the monkey that caused said outbreak is chilling in the forest…he was most certainly not picking up field mice and bopping them on the head though.
I need to go wash my hands. LOL j/k!!!!
August 16th, 2007 at 10:27 am
Hey, I like the new blog theme, but then again, I live in the frickin’ desert, so what do I know?!
I love zoos, but only if they’re animal friendly. You know what I mean - their environments are as non-restricting as possible, the handlers take care to protect them and study them in order to provide valuable knowledge that lends to their survival, etc. What frustrates me most when coyotes (I know, they’re scavengers) and bears and such are shot because they wandered into neighborhoods when developers are the ones who are allowed to plunder and pillage the natural habitats of said animals.
August 16th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Well….if you saw a desert theme, it was only temporary because I had to rebuild some stuff last night…you can always chose to change the theme you see using the theme switcher on my sidebar, if you like a new look
August 16th, 2007 at 11:05 pm
No big. I read you via Google Reader anyhoo and then click over the comment. Looks good to me - I’d rather see the water!