gorillas

As you will have gathered from previous posts, I am concerned about how well zoos do in giving their inhabitants reasonable places to live. The Toledo Zoo does its best to do a very good job indeed.

Still, when it comes to big primates, I wonder. I'm not sure they have space to evade our prying eyes. I *am* sure they are bored an awful lot of the time, despite the grass and the different levels and the things to play with and the food scattered around......

We are an awfully arrogant species. We stride across the planet, largely with no concern at all for the size of our footprints, or for anyone else who has gotten crushed as we go where we please, and take what we please. Those of us in the developed world have even more to answer for than your basic homo sap, as we use up energy at a prodigious rate (merrily polluting in every way), and amass more *stuff* than we could possibly use in multiple lifetimes.

Given how poorly we treat each other, it is no surprise that we treat non-humans badly, too.

Alas.

At least these gorillas are safe from poachers......
























The youngsters just look bored. This woman looks like an illustration for "Nobody knows the trouble I've seen." I wonder if she's thinking of lost family members, green jungles, a favorite food not tasted in many years.........

I wonder, if each of us took the bus a little more often, turned the a/c one notch warmer, the furnace one notch cooler, dried a load of clothes outside in the sun and wind, if we all chose a life that was a little less "convenient," would there be enough *more* so that those less fortunate could live a little better?