As I mentioned in yesterday's blog post, I went to the Denver Zoo Thursday afternoon to take a few photographs, but unfortunately, very few of the animals were willing to pose for a portrait. It appears they were all doing their own thing. The monkey in the photograph on the left was obviously absorbed in its own thoughts, no doubt pondering the meaning of life, why it was imprisoned, and when dinner would be served. Too absorbed to look up and let me take a damned photograph of it. Next time I suppose I could bring some tomatoes to throw and make it look up, but I suspect that might be against zoo regulations.
The orangutan in the photograph on the right was all about nurturing its one-year-old baby. Over-mothering, if you ask my opinion, but what do I know? If you left it to its own devices, it would probably get into all kinds of trouble and wind up becoming a delinquent, and sent to orangutan reform school, which I am sure would be supervised by unpaid Denver Zoo interns. But no problem - they wanted to work at the zoo and were willing to do it for free, so they have to take what they get. And I understand that if interns complain about their assignments, it will be back to cleaning the cages for them. Not a very pretty thought at all.
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