Just for fun
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Vulpes
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Yeah I was thinking dogs too! then there were the old Hagenbeck exhibits with eskimos and huskys reindeer etc I vaugley remeber reading about a young boy from the east being exhibited with an orangutang! there was out cry and he was removed to an orphanage. this was a long time ago however. I believe tribes woman from Africa with steatopygia were also displayed as chimp hybrids!
taun
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You beat me too, Rats is a good one not maybe people realise where nearly always within ten metres of a rat.
And just for fun..... !! 
Do you know who was Al Hanley ? He was a hero ! And not another one trivial hero, but super hero, who saved all mankind, all humanity and all our Earth. But first of all he was a hero of one, short sf story written by well known sf writer and novelist Fredric Brown (1906-1972). Unfortunately I do not know original English title of this story but I can give you there a short summary. Two ETs (actually their physical apperance was described by the author as pink earth-worms, or something similar), named “3” and “9” from very distant Galaxy were sent to Earth with the mission to capture an average representant of a mankind. Back on their planet they wanted to test if the human beings are strong enough for a very hard work in their deep mines. Al Hanley was a drunkard from Philadelphia and at the moment when he was captured by “3” and “9” he was well drunk. Some basic test (incl. Al’s blood analysis) were alrady made on a spaceship. Later, on this very strange and very distant planet he underwent through many physical examinations and different sport tests (run, jump, etc.). And the conclusion of a very high commitee could have been only one. The humans from planet Earth are very weak beings, incapable of doing any hard work !!!! At the end Al Hanley was sent to the local zoo, where he had got his own spacious cage with the small fountain on the middle, containing the solution of alcohol and some nutritional ingredients. The label said: Alcoholicus anonymous. Range: Planet Earth. Main food: alcohol. 
Do you know who was Al Hanley ? He was a hero ! And not another one trivial hero, but super hero, who saved all mankind, all humanity and all our Earth. But first of all he was a hero of one, short sf story written by well known sf writer and novelist Fredric Brown (1906-1972). Unfortunately I do not know original English title of this story but I can give you there a short summary. Two ETs (actually their physical apperance was described by the author as pink earth-worms, or something similar), named “3” and “9” from very distant Galaxy were sent to Earth with the mission to capture an average representant of a mankind. Back on their planet they wanted to test if the human beings are strong enough for a very hard work in their deep mines. Al Hanley was a drunkard from Philadelphia and at the moment when he was captured by “3” and “9” he was well drunk. Some basic test (incl. Al’s blood analysis) were alrady made on a spaceship. Later, on this very strange and very distant planet he underwent through many physical examinations and different sport tests (run, jump, etc.). And the conclusion of a very high commitee could have been only one. The humans from planet Earth are very weak beings, incapable of doing any hard work !!!! At the end Al Hanley was sent to the local zoo, where he had got his own spacious cage with the small fountain on the middle, containing the solution of alcohol and some nutritional ingredients. The label said: Alcoholicus anonymous. Range: Planet Earth. Main food: alcohol. 
There is a wonderful cartoon from one of Gary Larsen's Far Side collections, which shows two aliens looking at a little tank where a bear is just about to eat a man. The strapline is something like - "I told you it wouldn't work if you put humans into the bear's terrarium".
I keep a copy in our fishroom to remind my aquatics students about the risks in setting up a community tank.
Alan
I keep a copy in our fishroom to remind my aquatics students about the risks in setting up a community tank.
Alan