[LibKill]

Reminds me of a visit to a California zoo. They had an orangutan, male, about 350lbs. The creature had no neck, just muscles.

He looked me in the eye and I just knew that he resented being locked up and if he ever got out he was going to make some humans pay for it.

[Indy Pendance]

"He looked me in the eye and I just knew that he resented being locked up and if he ever got out he was going to make some humans pay for it."

I've seen that look too, kind of eerie.

[RedWhiteBlue]

I saw one of the most interesting interactions between humans and gorillas at the Washington Zoo. Part of the enclosure there is a glassed in room, where the gorillas spend a lot of time and people stand just on the other side of the glass watching.

When I was there, there were several adults, juveniles, and one baby in the enclosure. One of the juveniles was pestering the baby, constantly trying to get the baby to jump on his back to carry it around, pulling on the baby, trying to get the baby to play. You could tell that the baby wanted no part of it, but the juvenile would not let up. Finally, mama gorilla went to go rescue the baby from the pest, and she swooped it up .... and brought it over at set the baby right up against the glass where there where three toddlers (2 - 3 years old) on the other side of the glass. These kids went nuts, trying to give "hugs" to the baby through the glass.

It was as if momma gorilla was saying to the juvenile "I'll show you to be a pest! Since you won't stop, I'll let the baby play with the human children!"

But by far the most amazing experience I've ever had with primates is at the Singapore Zoo, when I fed a baby orangutan by hand that was on its mother's lap, while I was sitting next to them on a bench.

[RightWhale]

He looked me in the eye

At the Pittsburgh zoo the gorilla suddenly charged the bars on his cage while thumping his chest. Everyone jumped back, and the gorilla went back to sit down, his lip curled in a smile.