Human zoo in Australia
A zoo in Adelaide, Australia, has caged a group of humans in an effort to raise awareness about primate conservation. In what has been billed as "Big Brother behind bars", the select volunteers are locked in an orangutan cage, where they wear microphones and are monitored via webcam. Officially, the aim is for psychologists to use the findings to improve living conditions for apes in captivity. However, zoo audiences can also vote for their favorite participant by text message, like American Idol, and at the end of the month a winner will be selected to represent the zoo. Boringly, the human apes are allowed to go home at night and there are rules against nudity, ironic since every other animal in the zoo is naked. Then again, looking at the participants’ profiles on the human zoo homepage, it’s probably for the best. Too bad they don’t use prison populations for such experiments, could get two birds with one stone.
Zoo puts humans on display, Reuters.com
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