Monkey Business…
– – 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!
Tags: Japanese zoo safety drill, orangutan fursuit
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March 24, 2010 at 4:28 pm
That’s precisely why the Roger Patterson footage of Bigfoot could not have been faked. Because, at the time he caught him/her/it on film, every prosthetic costume designer who could make an ape-suit that sophisticated was working for 20th Century Fox on the original version of PLANET OF THE APES!
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March 24, 2010 at 10:44 pm
They had a lot of people to so attire, and those ape suits were pretty darn good for the time period, way ahead of their time!
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