My daughter and grandkids took a trip to Como Park Zoo yesterday to visit the conservatory, which was an absolutely wonderful place to be in February with all the gorgeous greenery, beautiful flowers and wonderful smells. Then we went over to see the monkeys and apes...................how utterly depressing. It would be like putting me in my Grandma's old cellar for the winter. When we got to the spider monkey exhibit, we stood there for a while and first one, then two monkeys came up to the glass where we were all congregated and they both huddled there against the glass and the one had his hand pressed on the glass against my grandson's hand. They just sat there quietly like that with us on the other side of the glass for the longest time. It was really moving. We hated to leave them. \r
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They also had 3 beautiful big noble apes crammed into a small dark dank enclosure. You could see the intelligence in their eyes, and there they sat for our viewing pleasure. Again, very inhumane. \r
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If we have to have zoos they should at least try to replicate the animals natural habitat. These enclosures were all cement and resins and no natural light. \r
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We left Como Park very sad for the animals. \r
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