The connection

[urbpan]

This is one of the keepers who trains the mandrill just hanging out with him. I confess, I just hung out with him a couple times today. It was strangely relaxing and exciting to connect for a while with a non-human primate. Indy is a cool monkey, and he likes it when children come and play in front of his window too.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

It must be a hugely powerful, wonderful thing. I mean, we have this with other creatures--with dogs, for instance, or with horses, or cats to a degree--this cross species communication. But any time you stop and think about it, you get awed by how amazing it is. And other primates are so similar to us. It's kind of cosmically reassuring when we can relate. (.... Or so I'd imagine, anyway.)

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Right on.