You KNEW it had to happen one day, didn’t you? Humans will go on display at a zoo (and this time we don’t mean lines at a Las Vegas casino’s buffet):
Adelaide Zoo [in Australia] is about to become home to a new species: homo sapiens.
The men and women will be housed in an intriguing new exhibition known as The Human Zoo in January.
In a world-first the zoo will have an enclosure housing people as part of a program to demonstrate humans are part of the animal kingdom.
Six people at a time will be housed in the old orang-utan enclosure – next to their fellow great apes, the chimpanzees and gorillas – and be treated like apes.
Wait: it’s “to demonstrate humans are part of the animal kingdom”?
Anyone who has driven on a Southern California freeway knows that already.
And it’ll be housed near the chimps and gorillas? Isn’t there a threat of disease — to the chimps and gorillas?
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.