November 25, 2018

Visiting the dying chimpanzee.


18 comments:

exhelodrvr1 said...

So it's OK to keep animals in a zoo? I can't keep track of what the rules are.

tcrosse said...

When do they read the Will?

Darrell said...

Tarzan!

tcrosse said...

Sheena!

Trumpit said...

The jokester deplorables come out of the sewer on touching posts like this one. They have no heart and no soul. I would call them garbage, but that would be an insult to good, non-stinking garbage. These nasty bores definitely stink to high heaven.

Michael Jackson owned a cute chimp called Bubble. When the chimp got too big for his britches, he was relegated to oblivion. "In 2009, the ape was spending most of his time sitting quietly in trees with Sam, a 40-year-old chimpanzee."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubbles_(chimpanzee)

wendybar said...

I saw this video a couple of years ago on FB.

Gahrie said...

Yeah this is an old video. Still touching.

Howard said...

Trumpit: Everyone responds to grief differently. Please show some compassion

tcrosse said...

Don't anthropomorphize me, bro.

Gahrie said...

Don't anthropomorphize me, bro.

The Chimps are our closest living relatives. If there is any animal that Anthropomorphism is appropriate for, it is the Chimps.

tcrosse said...
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tcrosse said...

If there is any animal that Anthropomorphism is appropriate for, it is the Chimps.

And yet, Heaven help you if you liken a person to a chimp. Ask Roseanne.

William said...

@Trumpiit: Was that an artful bit of self parody or were you on the level?........I just read a biography of Lord Curzon. When he took office as Foreign Secretary, he complained that his inkwell was made of brass and glass. He said that the inkwell of the Foreign Secretary should be made of crystal and silver. Nobody could tell if he was kidding. Curzon was noted both for his pomposity and for his sense of humor about his pomposity.

AllenS said...

The Chimps are our closest living relatives and a dog is man's best friend. Nah, I don't think so. Put that in your Trumpit and smoke it.

Chris N said...

Whoa there, my chimpathy is bigger than yours.

I see all of Gaia’s creatures as fellow travelers bonding towards equality, compassion and peace.

If you disagree you’re the lower order deserving of a fate worse than Hell!

All of you are preventing my goodness, the goodness locked within, from making the world what it could be.

Shame!

rcocean said...

Chimps shouldn't be in zoos. They're actually nasty, untrustworthy creatures - often too smart for their own good.

IOW, they're like people.

Didn't they teach a Gorilla to speak, and all she said was "Show me your tits?"

iowan2 said...

Trumpit, what if I tell you the chimp is a conservative? Then you would get in line to euthanize it with a baseball bat.

michaele said...

Lot of hard hearted people here in the comments. I had never seen the video before so it was new to me. I welled up and felt deeply touched. It brought back memories of a parent in the last stretches of hospice and a beloved dog who knew her time was coming to an end.