I went to the Denver Zoo Saturday afternoon to take a few photographs, and as usual, I tried to get some good photographs of the zoo babies. I took the photograph on the left of the baby giraffe, looking out at the wide open spaces of City Park beyond, dreaming of life on the outside. The older giraffes know they are there for life, but the baby still doesn't know that it will be in a cage forever. Eventually it will learn.
As will the gorilla baby in the photograph on the right. Gorillas are very similar to humans, and so their babies grow up in stages very similar to us. The little guy on the right has no conception of where he is, or what his future will be. Like the giraffe baby, he will find out. As you can tell, I have mixed feelings about the zoo. Going there gives you the chance to see animals you would never otherwise see, and the zoo's mission is to make sure these animals do not go extinct. However, they are indeed serving a life sentence, and will never live as nature intended. What is the answer? Damned if I know.
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