Quiet Time With A Primate Analysis
Quiet Time with a Primate
On Saturday, February 27, 2016, an absolutely beautiful day in Houston, Texas, the opportunity came to mind to make a trip to the Houston Zoo. Arriving the smell of fresh planted herbs and assorted roses, in magnificently worked landscapes, blended with a diversity of people with enough laughter to bring a smile, to put one at ease. This trip my intentions were focused on hopefully sharing, quality time with a primate. Observing their life through glass windows in the day room, moving to the outside containment, where there were two Western Low back Gorillas, napping under large distant shade trees. The outside containment was clean, but limited their ability of freedom. Parking myself where one could evaluate and
make note of this magnificent primate, on this sunny day, emotions carried my thoughts in different directions, furthermore spending over an hour with one that slept the whole time underneath the brush and shade trees, while humans exhibited their absolute unlearned behaviors, of yelling and throwing food, and often pathetic remarks, but one does relate that to humans, as being unschooled on these beautiful primates. While my eyes were closed, thoughts try to imagine their dominant ability’s in their normal habitat, running free and allowing evolution to run its course. Moving attention to another primate, brought tears to my eyes. I watched him/her for about 20 minutes seated hugged up to the opening door, which they use to go inside the building. Absolutely no movement except maybe a small shift of his head to the left or right, but lowered and bowed the whole time. There was food, lettuce and vegetables lying all around him, but his desire to eat was very unavoidable. His/her looked to be just existing, lifeless and incumbent, to one of the most extraordinary primates on earth. Sitting there sadness became evident, this primate did not feel the need to entertain humans, just wanted to be left alone in whatever thoughts of behavior he/she felt in order to survive. The Houston Zoo is beautiful and accommodates a lot of beautiful species, but on this day, existing the zoo I felt sad and questioning human intentions and the future of evolution
On Saturday, February 27, 2016, an absolutely beautiful day in Houston, Texas, the opportunity came to mind to make a trip to the Houston Zoo. Arriving the smell of fresh planted herbs and assorted roses, in magnificently worked landscapes, blended with a diversity of people with enough laughter to bring a smile, to put one at ease. This trip my intentions were focused on hopefully sharing, quality time with a primate. Observing their life through glass windows in the day room, moving to the outside containment, where there were two Western Low back Gorillas, napping under large distant shade trees. The outside containment was clean, but limited their ability of freedom. Parking myself where one could evaluate and
make note of this magnificent primate, on this sunny day, emotions carried my thoughts in different directions, furthermore spending over an hour with one that slept the whole time underneath the brush and shade trees, while humans exhibited their absolute unlearned behaviors, of yelling and throwing food, and often pathetic remarks, but one does relate that to humans, as being unschooled on these beautiful primates. While my eyes were closed, thoughts try to imagine their dominant ability’s in their normal habitat, running free and allowing evolution to run its course. Moving attention to another primate, brought tears to my eyes. I watched him/her for about 20 minutes seated hugged up to the opening door, which they use to go inside the building. Absolutely no movement except maybe a small shift of his head to the left or right, but lowered and bowed the whole time. There was food, lettuce and vegetables lying all around him, but his desire to eat was very unavoidable. His/her looked to be just existing, lifeless and incumbent, to one of the most extraordinary primates on earth. Sitting there sadness became evident, this primate did not feel the need to entertain humans, just wanted to be left alone in whatever thoughts of behavior he/she felt in order to survive. The Houston Zoo is beautiful and accommodates a lot of beautiful species, but on this day, existing the zoo I felt sad and questioning human intentions and the future of evolution