I went to the Denver Zoo yesterday afternoon to take a few photos. It was bright and sunny, but rather cool, with temperatures in the 40s. Which probably is why the zoo gave all the orangutans blankets, which they wore, off and on, the entire time I was there, including the one in the photograph on the left.
The mandrills, on the other hand, felt that they did not need no stinkin' blankets. Or perhaps they weren't given any. If so, why did the orangutans get blankets and not the mandrills? I think this should be a topic of discussion at the zoo's annual board meeting. Perhaps instead of blankets, they should be given sweaters, which zoo interns would be assigned to dress them in. I'd definitely like to get a photograph of that.
The wild African dogs did not seem to have gotten any blankets, either, not that it seemed to bother the one in the photograph on the left. In addition to putting sweaters on the animals, I think the interns should also be sent into the cages to gently tap these beasts with a long stick to wake them up when they doze off like this. After all, zoo guests should be entertained, right? And sleeping animals just don't cut it.
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