NCRegister | Man or Beast: The Modern DilemmaDEMARCO: A story is told in circles where science and humor coincide about an ape that was experiencing an acute identity crisis. The troubled primate escaped from the Bronx Zoo and, after sending shock waves of terror through the local community, was found in the New York City Public Library, holding in one hand Darwin’s Origin of the Species and in the other hand a copy of the Book of Genesis. "I just had to find out," he apologetically explained to reporters, "whether I was my keeper’s brother or my brother’s keeper."
Does the ape belong in a zoo as a captive who is cared for by his zoo keeper? Or is he human enough to be thought of on par with human beings?
