This is an orangutan at the LA Zoo. Doesn't he look old and wise? I mean, we've all seen the movies. We know that orangutans are the smartest of the apes, right?
This was a hard picture to take because the orangutans were behind glass that hadn't been cleaned for at least a few months. I kept moving around trying to find a tiny clean spot to shoot through, and I did eventually. Sort of clean, anyway.
As yet another visitor attempted to snap photos of his open nakedness, Clyde looked wistfully to his past when Bruno provided the intellectual interaction he craved. Since Bruno's departure to the Great Sky, Clyde's life has been an unending Groundhog's Day, only filled with ennui.
How different things might have been if the caretaker hadn't thoughtlessly destroyed Bruno's proof of the Selberg eigenvalue conjecture, the loss of which fed his melancholia and gyres of ultimately lethal depression.
OMG!!! What did you do to Charlie??
What a wonderful picture. The colors are lovely and that expression so deep and ancient.
I appreciate this portrait of the Librarian.
The turtle moves!
Big gorilla at the L.A. Zoo
Snatched the glasses right off my face
Took the keys to my BMW
Left me here to take his place
I wish the ape a lot of success
I'm sorry my apartment's a mess
Most of all I'm sorry if I made you blue
I'm betting the gorilla will, too
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Yes, I know it’s not a gorilla. But it’s not every day I get to quote a great Warren Zevon song so I’m not letting it slip by.
This is a wonderful capture, (capture in the photographic sense...lol), but this seems like a great sadness is the most evocative sense. Traveller
He doesn’t look old and wise. He looks sad.
Because he’s in a cage in a zoo.
I freaking hate zoos.