Title:
Dramatic chipmunk training for Olympics

Description:
My girlfriend and I were at the Amnéville zoo in France this weekend and we came across a (dramatic) chipmunk frenetically humping a corner and scratching the windowed cage. From the look of the marks left on these windows, this chipmunk had been doing this for years, seemingly trying to escape the enclosure by jumping over the the aforementioned windows. This attempt, although stoutish, was of course completely futile and quite hilarious as well...but after a while of good laughter at his expense, he gave me the grim look of the dramatic chipmunk :) EDIT: to all and any overzealous animal activists watching this, the prairie dog is not actually trying to escape, but just trying to get closer to people who he knows have pop corns expressly intended for feeding the animals. The prairie dog lives a very happy and comfortable life in his enclosure (of this zoo which helps protecting over 20 endangered species). If you feel pity for this animal, it's a understandable human feeling but also the outcome of a typically distorted conception of animal needs. There is a reason why human ethics isn't simply transposed to animal ethics: our needs are not identical. For more information on this, I suggest reading articles on comparative psychology and animal cognition (notably on "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy" which is accessible on the net).

Author:
anderssonpatrick

Tags:
amnéville, andersson, chipmunk, comedy, dog, dramatic, for, funny, olympics, parody, patrick, prairie, training, zoo,