In Gorilla's Death, Critics Blame Mother, Cincinnati Zoo

[Warren DeMontague]

93. I remember back when i was a wayward young man and was experimenting with the evil weed

And i was in that teenager phase where you suddenly decide you need to re-do all this mundane life stuff, but high. You know, "lets get high and go to the dry cleaner! Lets get high and watch the burger king employees take the trash out to the dumpster in the alley!", that kind of thing.

Well i vividly remembering taking one of these types of excursions to the lincoln park zoo or something like that. There was an elephant there in a cage, IIRC, and I was stoned out to the bejeesus belt. I remember looking at this elephant, eyes met for a moment and -zang!- connection.

Elephant telepathically communicated to me, very clearly "this suuuuucks. yeah, thanks a fucking lot"

No more zoos for me, after that, until i had kids of my own. And even now i find it sad, despite the fact that the conditions are vastly different for the most part.