Wirt Atmar wrote:

> Wirt,

Are you sure the gorilla's name wasn't King Kong?

>
>
> This escape yesterday was eerily similar to another gorilla escape about five
> years ago, but this time from the Bronx zoo. The escape that time was by a
> large, albino, elderly male gorilla named Karak. Karak not only made his way
> out of his cage, he completely escaped the zoo premises and became loose in
> New York City proper during the night.
>
> Because of Karak's age -- and his obvious intelligence -- zoo officials
> wanted absolutely no harm to come to him, so no public announcements were
> made of his escape, in great part simply to keep panic down.
>
> Karak disappeared into the city and was gone for more than two days before
> they found him. And where they found him was about as much of a surprise as
> anyone could imagine: he was in the basement of the New York City Library,
> sitting at a desk, in among the stacks, with two books open, the Bible and
> Darwin's "Origin of Species".
>
> The team that found Karak was headed by Dr. Susan Hemmingway of the American
> Museum in NYC, and she recognized immediately the enormous research
> opportunity into the mind of the gorilla that Karak presented, thus, using
> the bookshelves as a blind, they watched Karak for two more days, reading
> first from one text and then the other, occasionally having to push his
> bifocals back up on his nose before reading on. After two days of this
> observation -- and a little intense debate -- it became obvious that Karak
> was asking the age-old question that bothers us all: "Was he his brother's
> keeper, or was he his keeper's brother?"
>
> In the end, it was obvious that he decided that he was both.
>
> Wirt Atmar

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