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Sport 41: 2013
Wellington Zoo 31
Wellington Zoo 31
Four, maybe five chimpanzees huddled at
the back of a cave, shadowy figures,
unmoored in time. Their cave just across from
the main spectator zone, the chimpanzees,
though so shy, appeared to be on a
stage: as if the demeaning ‘We are like
you’ theatre of tea parties had been
replaced by tableaux which urged ‘You were
like us’: or ‘are like us’, even, visitors
could feel, troglodyte pedigree asserting
itself despite the backdrop Wellington’s
house-dotted hillsides provided; the
question pressing to mind—Why have they
given those chimpanzees such a nice cave?