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Sport 41: 2013
Wellington Zoo 37
Wellington Zoo 37
Out of the dimness of the chimpanzees’
sleeping chamber an infant, or barely
older, showed that two could play at pressing
their nose to the glass, and that it could
do so while hanging upside down, and while
eating. This last was done with an evident
desire to share, the leaves held forth before
being consumed. And now—wonderful gesture
of friendship, the species divide put to
nothing—it laid a palm on the glass. But
then abruptly it decided it was
wasting its good will and began swinging
backwards, flashing its anus, an even
more time-honoured signal amongst primates.