keisho 24 November 2010
I watched a programme about London Zoo last night as I had written about it in THE TIME IS NOW. The tv show featured some gorillas and when the adult male died the keepers went in search of a new leader for the 3 females left behind. They found him in neighbouring Dublin Zoo and a fine handsome lad he was, called Keisho. Even I could tell he was good-looking and in great nick. He had a lovely temperament too. And all of it brought home why I will never watch King Kong, older or newer version because what happens to Kong is SO unfair – taken from his homeland and held up to ridicule by humans for their amusement and then killed (horribly) because he falls in love. The first and only time I saw this movie – the black and white – I was quite young but even then I remember being upset beyond the film itself, for Kong. And ultimately these days I mourn that we continue to destroy the habitats of so many intelligent, beautiful, civilised animals and drive them to extinction. Zoos do valuable conservation work, but in an ideal world surely they wouldn’t need to…
