Brilliant new exhibit at the Warsaw zoo!

[astro]

Caged ‘cavemen’ go on display at Warsaw zoo

WARSAW, Poland – Visitors to Warsaw’s zoo are being greeted by two “Homo sapiens” peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man’s caveman ancestors.

Organizer Maria Mastalerz says the weeklong “performance” aims to attract interest in a play, “Caveman,” showing in the Polish capital. But she says it also carries a message that humans today are not all that different from their prehistoric ancestors.

Dressed in furs and animal skins, the young woman and man smoked a fish over a fire Friday, poking it with a stick, or stared from behind bars at startled zoo visitors.

[cwthree]

I like it. Didn’t a Spanish zoo once do something similar with a man in a business suit? He spent his days sitting at a desk in his enclosure, shuffling papers.

[Flutterby]

At the Calgary Zoo there used to be a cage with a Homo Sapiens label on it.

It was near the playground and the kids could play in it, I have a picture somewhere of me in it. They’ve since gotten rid of it though in all the renovations.

[Sage_Rat]

Is his name Billy Pilgrim?

[Slithy_Tove]

“But in the circus you get to ride around in the train, see the whole planet!”