- LONDON (AFP) - London Zoo
unveiled a new exhibition -- eight humans prowling around wearing little
more than fig leaves to cover their modesty.
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- The "Human Zoo" is intended to show the basic
nature of human beings as they frolick throughout the August bank holiday
weekend.
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- "We have set up this exhibit to highlight the spread
of man as a plague species and to communicate the importance of man's place
in the planet's ecosystem," London Zoo said.
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- The scantily-clad volunteers will be treated as animals
and kept amused at the central London zoo with games and music.
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- "I actually think the fig leaves will be enough
to cover us up, it's no worse than a swimming pool," said volunteer
Simon Spiro, 19, from New Malden, south of the British capital.
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- Spiro, selected from dozens of hopefuls in an Internet
competition, said he was excited by the prospect of monkeying around on
the zoo's Bear Mountain.
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- "I'm a veterinary student so the idea of working
for a zoo was something that appealed to me.
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- "I thought it would be fun and interesting because
I'm an outdoorsy kind of person," he said.
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- Brendan Carr, 25, from Aylesbury, southern England, wrote
a poem in his bid to get on the mountain.
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- "I'm funky like a monkey and as cool as a cat, talk
more than a parrot, up all night like a bat," it went.
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- "I got a laugh like a hyena but get the hump like
a camel, so cover me in fig leaves as I'm the ultimate mammal."
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