Archive for March 24, 2010

Monkey Business…

March 24, 2010

– – In another safety drill at Tama Zoo in Tokyo, an employee dressed in an orangutan suit acted out the scenario of a primate escaping the perimeter fence in the orangutan enclosure.

A member of the staff was seized by the beast before he met his match in a keeper armed with a tranquilizer gun…

A Far Side cartoon is begging to be drawn with zoo visitors viewing obvious “animals” in fursuits, perhaps the result of budgetary cuts…and even the old Planet of the Apes series had far better orangutan costumes!