Just heard one of the Orangutans escaped from Dublin Zoo...
Bernie Wright of the Alliance for Animals Rights (friends of yours, Auditor#9?) said that "the understandably frustrated animal had been confined in an enclosure for 24 years. Zoos are a throwback to the menageries of Victorian times".

Has he/she been caught? ( Orangutan, not Bernie)

Yup she was caught and tranquilised. It happened during the week but only seemed to make the papers on the weekend.

She climbed over a tiger enclosure - lucky she didn't fall in!!

johnfás wrote:

Yup she was caught and tranquilised. It happened during the week but only seemed to make the papers on the weekend.

She climbed over a tiger enclosure - lucky she didn't fall in!!

Lucky for the tiger maybe - I believe an orangutan can give you a hell of a whack.

I wonder what was first on her agenda when she made good her escape.
Fair Trade Bananas?
A place of her own for private orangutan sex without hoards of perplexed schoolkids looking on?

Little snippet of Irish History for you re Dublin Zoo:

At a meeting called and chaired by the Duke of Leinster in the Rotunda, Dublin, on 10 May 1830 it was decided to establish The Zoological Society of Dublin "to form a collection of living animals, on the plan of the Zoological establishment of London.''

and another:


Dublin Zoological Gardens, the third oldest public zoo in the world, opened to the public on September 1 1831. In the first 14 months there were 36,497 visitors who contributed £508 in subscriptions and £912 in entrance fees. The Zoo had 46 mammals, including 15 monkeys, and 72 birds.



Notice the Zoo opened before the Victorian Age began!

Brandubh wrote:

and another:


Dublin Zoological Gardens, the third oldest public zoo in the world, opened to the public on September 1 1831. In the first 14 months there were 36,497 visitors who contributed £508 in subscriptions and £912 in entrance fees. The Zoo had 46 mammals, including 15 monkeys, and 72 birds.



Notice the Zoo opened before the Victorian Age began!

Interesting that it's about the same time that Ireland got compulsory primary education...

I think that the entire Phoenix Park should be turned into an elephant sanctuary.

Kate. I have had in my mind a very proper picture of you and I may have to adjust it somewhat now that one of your concerns seems to be the quality of a orangutans sex life

Hes been caught. Party on...

youngdan wrote:

Kate. I have had in my mind a very proper picture of you and I may have to adjust it somewhat now that one of your concerns seems to be the quality of a orangutans sex life

I took my niece and nephew to the zoo not too long ago and had an interesting time trying to find a way not to explain oral sex to two kids under 8... I felt sorry for the orangutans.

People , ehem , used to throw fags to the chimps in Dervock Safari park. They could use lighters and matchs. Well, I mean, if you had to live near Ballymoney you'd be abusin harder drugs. They had to buy them patchs but the people kept throwin......

Kate now I am really thrown for a loop. Why did you feel sorry for the orangutans if there was oral sex on display. I would imagine that would be one hell of a happy monkey.

youngdan wrote:

Kate now I am really thrown for a loop. Why did you feel sorry for the orangutans if there was oral sex on display. I would imagine that would be one hell of a happy monkey.

To be honest, Dublin Zoo is not so much a genteel and scientific pleasure garden as it is our animal version of Abu Ghraib.

It may not have been consensual then and the victim would have been justified for making a break for it.