Herman the ape was raised by a rich human family whose need for exotic pets put this wonderful creatures life in a discountenance. Her manlike most Chimps would get to dangerous to keep around the house and this family shipped him off to a zoo. He was once again abandoned by a family this time the adopted human family that had Aiken him in from the wild after poachers killed his Chimp one. Herman was bewildered and confused after being raised as a human and then being confided with his own kind that he felt were inferior.
Herman thought of himself as human and his life in captivity in a zoo is chronicled in the book "Zoo Story" by the author Thomas French. This book describes the behind the scenes of the Tampa Zoo with many interesting stories on how they obtain their animals in the wild for a miserable existence for human entertainment in this dreaded institution called zoos. The book also explains the sale of a herd of wild elephants from a reserve in South Africa and the battle to fly them to their new living confided arrangement after living like the wild animals they were born for most of their lives. Zoos are a tragedy for the wildlife that have to endure the humuliation of life in captivity and nothing illustrates tis than Herman the ape.A good book by Mr French.
He has a fondness for blondes from years as an infant being raised by buxom blondes of Scandinavian heritage and zoo officials clear know he will never mate with his own kind. Herman the ape acted and was a big old lovalbe animal and a very popular attraction and had a resemblence in actions to another Herman from the sixties televsion show the Munsters.
Herman is top dog in his pen and weak male chimps are brought in as it to pose much harm to Herman and his virgin Chimp harem, but the fact of the matter is that Herman wants to be let out Nd roam like other humans. Reading tis book you really get a sense of the dejection that Herman feels and the struggles he and all the animals in zoos around the country must face in their precarious situation on Earth.
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