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Sport 41: 2013
Wellington Zoo 29
Wellington Zoo 29
The chimpanzees were out and about at
the bottom of the enclosure, where a
high wall gave shelter from the northerly
and as well imbued with a certain extra
poignancy their circumstances. So close
to human, beneath the wall, the intent,
careful figures appeared, if baffled, to
possess the glow of awareness. In the
seeming courtyard seemed the stilled chatter
of courtyards; the chimpanzees—rather more
than confined—looking like their sibling
species enchanted; nothing else required
but that some prince, or seventh daughter of
a seventh daughter, should scale the ramparts.