Hi. You did ask if I wanted to submit anything. Well this is just a whimsical thought, but use it if you wish. If not, well I suppose I was never meant to be a journalist, although that’s what I wanted to be many moons ago!
Gorilla Warfare
There’s a orangutan at Monkey World by the name of Gordon. I think that’s quite sweet except it always makes me think of Gordon Brown, and I don’t think he was an orangutan really. To me orangutans are gentle creatures that largely take life as it comes. For the most part vegetarian, I gather they are not adverse to eating the odd insect or left-over scrap lying dead on the path. Orangutans seem not to see bad in other creatures and are taken by surprise when one turns round and bites them. A chimp maybe. Clever, successful, unstoppable, they can also be competitive, territorial, aggressive, cannibalistic: whatever it takes to defend themselves against each other and outsiders.
No, Monkey World should have called the orangutan Nick. Now David Cameron and friends – there’s a fine tribe of chimps if ever I saw one. A chimp leader who actually has his own pet orangutan no less, fed on scraps. I could come up with lots of suggestions for chimp names.They should have kept the name Gordon for a gorilla. Large and lumbering, the gorilla also tends to be mostly gentle unless crossed, using his size and threat of clunking fist to deter attack. Woe betide the creature that does not take that seriously however. Beware the gorilla that has lost it! We have only ever really seen the gentle side of Ed Milliband, and I don’t think Monkey World would want to call one of their gorillas Ballsy. Now there’s a real silverback. Look out!
Vicki Black
