No Humans Were Hurt in the Making of this….
02/28/2007 @ 8:00 am
A zoo worker dressed as an orang-utan falls after being ’shot’ by another zoo worker with a simulated tranquiliser dart as part of an animal escape drill at a zoo in western Tokyo February 27, 2007.
Zoo workers practiced surrounding the escapee with nets before pretending to shoot it with a tranquilising dart and returning it to its enclosure. Photo courtesy of REUTERS/Michael Caronna (JAPAN)
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perfeckt 10:10
Priceless, priceless photo.
I wonder if the orangutans in the zoo have heard about the chimps in Africa arming themselves with spears . . .
February 28th, 2007 at 8:35 amI wonder how relevant this “drill” really is. How well does a man in an orangutan suit really represent the real thing in terms of behavior and agility?
February 28th, 2007 at 9:15 amI saw something similar on TV here in Japan sometime last year.
A zoo worker — the youngest among them — dressed as a polar bear and went through a similar drill.
As I watched, I was thinking how good he was at portraying the nervous tension of the escaped bear as he tried to find some way out to freedom, how he portrayed the initial shock and then growing weasiness as the tranquilizer (fake, of course) took effect.
At the end of the segment, the narrator of the show said the other zoo workers awared the guy in the polar bear suit “Best Acting” award for his memorable and realistic portrayal.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:21 amAbsolutely. To make it authentic, they used a gaijin.
February 28th, 2007 at 10:21 amI think he should have taken a lesson from real chimps and fashion a primitive spear out of a branch, then stab at the zookeepers viscously until they must be euthanized by rifle shot. Then close in slowly with the news cameras on the fake orangutan as the remove the mask, only to realize its some Chinese-African-American terrorist…Yeah that would be more realistic
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February 28th, 2007 at 10:34 amTo make it authentic, they used a gaijin.
Primate? Gaijin?
Who’d be able to tell the difference?
February 28th, 2007 at 12:58 pmPrimates can use chopsticks.
February 28th, 2007 at 2:41 pmThey are safer around your daughters as well.
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March 1st, 2007 at 10:22 pm