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BRONX ZOO
5. a world without animals
a grey wolf looked through the broken planks, it could have smelt us several snow covered kilometres away, now it was mangy and bored, depressed, pacing, not fit for a domestic dog, not a wolf anymore, imagine a world without animals, or where they only existed in zoos, big, smart and sociable to nil, the bronx zoo is a zoo within a zoo, squashed in between freeways and subways, the tenement buildings creeping over the trees, neighbours peeking at animals from between the gunshots and the curtains, it made them feel better about their own lives, the concrete in the bear pit is painted white, to remind the psychotic polar bear of the arctic, while it completely rejected the artificial environment that had been made for it, there was a 4 month old giraffe trying to eat vegetation painted on the wall, this is a world without animals, and we were meant to preserve our wildlife memories by taking a photo there |
