Day 362 (Thursday 7/18/13)- Madison, WI

 

 Starting our day at the free zoo in Madison we were awed to see an unbelievably cool collection of animals. Spending a half hour of so talking with a zoo keeper who has 30 years of experience under her belt we learned much about the complicated world of Chimpanzees.

Clearly bitter from years of watching zoo visitors unwittingly interact stupidly with the chimps we got to hear this zoo keeper make loud and sarcastic comments like "yeah the chimpanzee is just coming to say hi (apparently they come to glass to investigate why a bunch of idiots are making threatening waving gestures at them)." Getting a glimpse into the sweet side of these amazing creatures was a treat but we probably could have done without the rant about how much paperwork a zoo keeper has to do.