Monkeys at the Maul

our mission: to cage all beasts?,
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Just read about chimps mauling a visitor at a monkey sanctuary. Weird cuz the people visiting were visiting a chimp that they used to have as a pet. Four chimps escaped and two attacked the male visitor.

Maybe they don't want to be cooped up in a cage for the rest of their lives? Maybe they want to be more than just primates admired by "responsible animal lovers?" Maybe they were having their revenge? I'd do the same thing. Revolt!

Anyway, the two that attacked were killed. The person who killed the two chimps was described as "saving a life." That's so George Bush, manipulative talk trying to evade the truth of the matter. Yes, a life was saved, but at the cost of two, and at the cost of freedom for these monkeys. So we're back at square one--is the primate's message of being driven to insanity being heard or even considered?

What were these escaping monkeys, in effect, telling the humans? My guess is that they weren't happy living in a cage and that they wanted to be living a normal life of a chimp (in Africa?) Is this a unrealistic hope for them? To be in their natural habitat? If so, why are we preventing them from this, why is that a threat to us? Because we can't keep them in a cage as a lesser animal, as an animal to be either saved from poachers, saved from science, saved from the entertainment industry, or kept as a pet in a cage or "sanctuary"? A sanctuary from who, what? Us? Why must they be perpetually protected from us? Just move them back to their natural habitat where they can live in freedom, away from us human beans, for God's sake!
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