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I have to truely agree with what someone said before. When I first saw this picture I was curious about why there was no title, not even a response from the one that had taken this picture.
But looking at, I mean really LOOKING at it...its the kind of picture that speaks for its self.
There's no color to the background, and the main focus is the ape looking balefully into the camera's lens. It...just has a sad tone to it all....
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This Gorilla looks like he's saying, "What the Hell you starin' at? Yeah, I'm locked up in a cage (guesses), and I want outta here!"
Great photo!
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His eyes are so powerful. Great capture.
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Such personality ! 
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des isch ein geiles bild^^ die Haltung des Gorillas und der Blick^^
Darf ich raten der Gorilla befindet sich im Stuttgarter Zoo Wilhelma
oda?!? xD
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This picture made me think of Nabakov. When he was asked what inspired him to write the infamous Lolita, he referred to an article about an experiment he read in a newspaper. The experiment was as follows: A group of scientists tried to teach an ape to draw. When the ape finally draw a picture, it was the bars of his cell.
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that is the saddest thing i've ever heard
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everything is talking, everything
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this goes to show you that even animals can have such powerful emotions. beautiful.
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Das ist sehr trauig aber auch schΓΆn. Mein Herz tut mir weh fΓΌr ihn.
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very amazing work
i love the black and white feel
almost like hes in a jail
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SOMEWHAT of a jail
but thats my opinion..
im not changing yours
you are not changing mine
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Wonderful shot. It makes me feel sad for the beautiful animal.
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The body language seems so human. The
way he's leaning against the wall and
side ways glance. How many times in
out lives have we seen that very stance
and look? Amazing. This picture something
in the animal that we could all relate.
Great picture.
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Diese Art von Bildern jagt mir jedesmal wieder eine GΓ€nsehaut ΓΌber den RΓΌcken!
SchΓ€ndlich, daΓ eine so majestΓ€tische Kreatur sein Leben in solch einem Γbel verbringen muΓ!
Trotzdem ist die Aufnahme fantastisch ... sie sagt alles, ohne Worte!
GlΓΌckwunsch zur DD!
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kann ich mich nur anschlieΓen...
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Congratz on the DD. It's a wonderful emotional picture.
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fantastic animal portrait 
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poor guy... I can really feel that his living in a cruel world in this picture...
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geniales bild; es wirkt wie eine erinnerung wie wir mit uns und unseresgleichen umgehen - da kommt ekel, wut und jede menge mitgefΓΌhl auf!
danke fΓΌrs hochladen uns zeigen.
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Zoos suck and they should all get closed, we have the Discovery channel and the web now, no sense in torturing animals in such a senseless way...
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you do know that most animals in zoo's have been rescued in one way or another and would otherwise have been dead, that the ones born there would not survive in the wild and that several species of animals are still around these days because of zoo's and special breeding programs and would be extinct by now..
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Except if it weren't for humans they would be able to live. And zoos' goals are not to conserve a species, that's a sanctuary's goal. No, a zoos goal is to make money off of caged animals.
Sanctuaries are the ones who conserve the species that would otherwise be dead. Don't even pretend.
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Thank you. And it's really sad how ignorant people are when it comes to animals. I'd title this picture "Hopelessness".
People always try to pretend zoos are so great, but really none are. See how that poor gorilla has naught but a cold, stone ground to lay or sit on and people think newspaper will compensate for it. I don't think so.
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Not to mention the whole "being caged kinda stinks" issue.
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exactly
i feel the same way about livestock animals..
theres lots of livestock that would have died out if we didnt want to eat them
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You are probably talking about most animals in the zoos of CIVILIZED countries. Not the case of mine.
Further more, breeding a specie in a zoo still doesn't count and that specie still existing. 7 red bald eagles left in the world, all in zoos - it's like they don't exist anyhow
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My friend just ordered an extremely rare snake, possibly even endangered, over the internet. They post it in the mail, in a brown envelope with "Happy Birthday, Fragile, Glass inside" Written on the envelope.
No Jokes. From USA to South Africa.
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Holy crap! Well, I guess the snake was still alive, they're pretty tough bastards! 
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Ye they are. But still. Endangered species and its getting posted around like a commodity. They post them as babies, because when they are very young their skeleton hasn't calcified yet, so they don't get recognized on scanners or X ray machines. Crazy Shit.
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Should have used this method to smuggle myself across the border, years ago! Darn!
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My goodness.. not unlike a human staring back. Quite somber; great shot.
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