it’s something…

I was able to get the rest of the pictures from yesterday uploaded, so I figured I would maybe pic out another of my favorites from the set.

I wish I could do a better job of telling these guys apart, but I can’t really do it from the pics so good. Anyway I think this is one of the guys from the play session. I think they call him Spike, but I learned something interesting about their names. Since they know their names when the keepers talk about or interact with them “on show” (in front of guests), they don’t use their names. They are worried that if guests knew their names they would constantly yell out their names and eventually the gorillas would just ignore them. The problem is they would ignore the keepers also. So the only reason I heard their names yesterday is because some of the gorilla people already knew them.

So where was I? Oh yeah, so I think this might be one of the “individuals” (that is keeper lingo) from the play session. When I look at this shot, I can’t help but wonder what he is thinking about. Maybe something like “dude…I can’t believe someone ate all the oranges…I really wanted another orange”

You can find the rest of the pics here.