Vintage Zoo Atlanta/Grant Park

Few folks realize it, but Grant Parks Willie B. was the genius/innovator behind today's exhibit/behavioral enrichment in modern zoos. Originally he had been provided with the green Aztec sacrifice alter on his right, which he ignored and had no use for. Then he was provided with the rainbow tiles on the scale he is sitting on, in an effort to "camouflage" it so Willie B. would be fooled into thinking it was a shadowy jungle clearing, and not be afraid of it, which worked good because he used to get on the scale to relieve himself. Not realizing at the time that Willie B. has trichromatic vision and can distinguish red, blue, and green Grant Park Zoo wasted valuable resources by decorating his hapitat with blue walls and a red floor, so Willie B. could distinguish between the two, and know when he was walking on something it was a floor, and when he ran into it, it was a wall. But with all the effort's Wille B. wasn't enriched, until the day he ripped a hook, on the floor on his left, off of a shifting door, and spend countless hour's entertaining himself and playing with it. Eureka, exclaimed the zoological degrees!!!!!! We can improvise and improve by going one step further with beer kegs, boomer balls, milk crates, gunny sacks, and Sesame Street blankets. Humans, always eager to "take credit" might suggest it was Hal Markowitz and his Pachinco machines at Portland that started the trend. I would beg to differ, and suggest that it was that "culprit Willie B. what was behind it."

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