Originally Posted by SPRINGFIELD

Right on. Zoos are depressing. "Look at the worlds most efficient predator pace around aimlessley, kids!" Worse yet are the gorrillas and other great apes. Sitting around, playing with tires and barbells, looking at you through the glass. Sometimes when you look a gorilla or a chimp in the eye, it's chilling. It's almost like they know what's going on, and they aren't happy about it. I'll never forget a big silverback gorilla making eye contact with me at the Omaha zoo, our faces inches apart through the glass. Just stared right into my eyes, through my soul, it seemed. It had a very.......human feeling to it. Kind of scary, really sad. The gorilla eventually smashed his hand into the glass and ran away. Seemed to me out of anger or frusration. I haven't been to a zoo since. No plans to go back to another one.