Yesterday,
a group of six of my friends and I went on an evening adventure. So where did our outing take us? To the original location of the Los Angeles
Zoo—a locale that today has hundred-year-old rusting iron cages, rotting wood
enclosures and an awe-inspiring feel to it.
Here, one can actually climb into the enclosures that once housed
monkeys and other wildlife the zoo referred to as their small animal
collection.
I’ve
always been enchanted with wild animals.
What they do…. How they
feel…. What they’re thinking…. Where they disappear to when they round the
corners into the recesses of their cages and vanish from the public’s view. While exploring with my friends last night, I
was able to discover where the animals went when they rounded those mysterious
corners within their cages.
It
was odd to climb through, over and around the old enclosures. Some looked like prisoner-of-war solitary
confinement concrete boxes. Others were
intimidating with their front facades of heavy iron bars. Those made me wonder what kind of massive
animals they housed. Some had odd
configurations that I couldn’t quite figure out, the floors of them being
stacked above other adjoining enclosures where the animals contained in each
would be able to peer at one another and possibly reach their paws through
narrow iron bars to touch one another if they leaned up or down.
All
of the enclosures left me with the same sad feeling. What the heck were officials thinking when
they thought housing wild animals in such tiny cages was a good idea? Originally, officials had hoped to generate
$10,000 to build the zoo. But they were
only able to raise a mere $2000. So that
was what they used to build enclosures for wild animals that lived out their
days in cramped confinement. If you’d
like to learn more about this locale, please click on the following link to
view a several-minute long video.
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