En el Jardín Zoológico

Apr 07, 2004 4 Replies

If some animals bother you, why then indulge them? Why play with them?



It's one thing (in slow periods) to flip them the occasional dog biscuit and watch them perform to cue, or demonstrate this to your friends. Factors that make these animals bark and mess themselves also make their behavior more predictable than they themselves are able to see. (This is evident with experience and enough familiar repetitions of behaviors fancied always to be original.) But to engage them and make them drool, while also complaining about their behavior, is unentertaining (not to mention inhumane). Occasionally a difficult animal of consistently ill humor can be an oblique foil for good humor enjoyed by all others -- like a ball on a billiards table used for a carom shot into multiple pockets, technically difficult but gratifying. This is not as good as converting the animal itself to good humor, but it does salvage something. Otherwise however they are usually best left alone. (Suggestion from an old animal handler.)



Please remember this when you visit the zoo.


Er, Max, what have you been drinking ;-)))

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

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Salut/Hi Mike Tommasi,

le/on Wed, 07 Apr 2004 08:26:30 +0200, tu disais/you said:-

It's called all eg ory, Mike. We are the zoo, and we are currently in the process of feeding a couple of the more pestiferous animals here.

(Of course, I may be completely wrong. But the likelyhood of that I estimate as being vanishingly small).

Yes, I assumed that too, and had a good laugh. But maybe it's just an inadvertent crosspost to alt.troll.psychology... ;-)

Good prose Max.

Mike

Mike Tommasi, Six Fours, France email link

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Thank you Max!

I forgot to look at the group I was in and posted to rec. birds.

Got the same reply that Mike gave; "Have you been drinking"?

I replied, YES!

Larry Southern Ontario

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