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Sport 41: 2013
Wellington Zoo 33
Wellington Zoo 33
Barrelling single file along the line
of the wall which formed the enclosure’s
northern limit, the four chimpanzees looked
distinctly menacing, on a mission
until they realised there was no mission
and the group broke up: yet something to give
jitters remained—the impress of change,
rearrangements—as if the wall might, like
the monolith in Kubrick’s Odyssey
did humanity’s forebears, be stirring up
these apes; so that this occasion single
file beneath the wall, the next—cognisance
taken of advantages of strength and
agility—a line to the summit.