Photograph taken by the author.
Please, Don't Tease the Animals!
I must have
said it a dozen times. Or maybe a hundred times.
“Please, don’t tease the gorillas – they might
throw something at you and you won’t like what they throw!”
“Please,
don’t feed the squirrel monkeys – they bite!”
“Please,
don’t try to touch the coati – he has sharp teeth!”
“Please,
don’t climb on the wall, I wouldn’t want you to fall into the animal
enclosure.”
Please, don’t
howl at the siamangs, they don’t like it. It stresses them out and you don’t
know what you might be saying back to them!”
But people
just kept on doing it. They kept on teasing the tiger, hooting at the siamangs,
throwing food to the squirrel monkeys, coati and meerkats, and climbing on the
wall around the giant tortoise exhibit. They kept on banging on the windows of
the Animal Care Center, kept on whistling
at the monkeys to get their attention take a photo, and kept on making faces at
the orangutans, gorillas and chimps.
Well, one
day, the animals got their revenge.
The siamangs howled and sang so loudly that everyone went deaf. The gorillas threw poop at a particularly obnoxious man, and hit another with one of the rotten apples he had tossed into the gorilla enclosure. A female orangutan spit water (and orangutan spit) full in the face of a woman who was making kissing noises at the orangutan’s new baby. A little boy who had been walking along the top of the wall around the giant tortoise exhibit fell in and the turtles sat on him until he yelled “Uncle”. The squirrel monkeys bit the fingers off of a man who was feeding them grapes, and the coati ate someone’s cell phone after it had been shoved into the little animal’s face. The meerkats finally got to eat the popcorn they had been teased with after a girl who was leaning over the railing fell into the enclosure. For good measure, the meerkats ate the little girl’s nose, as well. The best was when the tiny baby gibbon peed right on someone’s head!
The siamangs howled and sang so loudly that everyone went deaf. The gorillas threw poop at a particularly obnoxious man, and hit another with one of the rotten apples he had tossed into the gorilla enclosure. A female orangutan spit water (and orangutan spit) full in the face of a woman who was making kissing noises at the orangutan’s new baby. A little boy who had been walking along the top of the wall around the giant tortoise exhibit fell in and the turtles sat on him until he yelled “Uncle”. The squirrel monkeys bit the fingers off of a man who was feeding them grapes, and the coati ate someone’s cell phone after it had been shoved into the little animal’s face. The meerkats finally got to eat the popcorn they had been teased with after a girl who was leaning over the railing fell into the enclosure. For good measure, the meerkats ate the little girl’s nose, as well. The best was when the tiny baby gibbon peed right on someone’s head!
It was a
great day at the zoo!
