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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Bronx Zoo had a 1963 exhibition called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World."
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On June 8, 1963, the Illustrated London News ran the following story about an exhibition at the gorilla house at The Bronx Zoo in New York City. The exhibit told visitors:
You are looking at the most dangerous animal in the world. It alone of all the animals that ever lived can exterminate (and has) entire species of animals. Now it has the power to wipe out all life on earth.
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The Bronx Zoo had a 1963 exhibition called "The Most Dangerous Animal in the World." (Original Post)
kpete
Apr 2022
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(1,189 posts)1. Today it would be an orangutan
SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)2. No kidding!
ck4829
(35,129 posts)3. I get the point, it's just funny how it's clear we have this power, and yet...
We are constantly told to not even bother making changes to our society and to the world around us.
Even in our own circles, we are told "don't bother"
But with danger comes possibility.
Maybe it's time to drop the "don't bother" act.
marybourg
(12,691 posts)4. Local and National news sources covered
the story heavily.at the time
intheflow
(28,559 posts)5. In 1909 the Bronx Zoo had an African man on display.
There's a whole book on the man, Ota Benga, who was lured away from Africa in his teens by tales of seeing the world with this white guy, but the white guy brought him to New York and put him in the zoo, in the monkey cage.
Here's the NYT book review: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/books/review/spectacle-the-astonishing-life-of-ota-benga-by-pamela-newkirk.html
efhmc
(14,766 posts)8. Wikipedia has a pretty good breakdown of his life. Such misuse and abuse of humans
still continues.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,611 posts)6. Looking back, those were almost halcyon days, in many ways.
DENVERPOPS
(9,113 posts)7. Most dangerous thing?????? "Y" Chromosome........LOL NC