# Brilliant new exhibit at the Warsaw zoo!

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**Created:** [November 29, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-new-exhibit-at-the-warsaw-zoo/519338 "2009-11-29T16:08:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-new-exhibit-at-the-warsaw-zoo/519338/1 "2009-11-29T16:08:30Z")

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[Caged ‘cavemen’ go on display at Warsaw zoo](http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/eu_odd_poland_zoo_cavemen)

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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.

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**Author:** ![cwthree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de0a6/32.png) [@cwthree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cwthree)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-new-exhibit-at-the-warsaw-zoo/519338/2 "2009-11-29T16:32:46Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Flutterby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Flutterby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flutterby)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-new-exhibit-at-the-warsaw-zoo/519338/3 "2009-11-29T17:20:41Z")

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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.

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**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-new-exhibit-at-the-warsaw-zoo/519338/4 "2009-11-29T17:52:24Z")

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Is his name Billy Pilgrim?

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**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\
**Post date:** [November 29, 2009, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/brilliant-new-exhibit-at-the-warsaw-zoo/519338/5 "2009-11-29T20:07:09Z")

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