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Caged 'cavemen' go on display at Warsaw zoo

Fri Nov 27, 2009 10:53 AM EST
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<p>Two volunteers in a former monkey cage and dressed as cavemen, are photographed by a visitor at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. The zoo has opened a week-long display where two volunteers - a man and a woman - spend time in the cage to remind visitors that humans are animals too. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)</p>

Two volunteers in a former monkey cage and dressed as cavemen, are photographed by a visitor at the zoo in Warsaw, Poland, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. The zoo has opened a week-long display where two volunteers - a man and a woman - spend time in the cage to remind visitors that humans are animals too. (AP Photo/Alik Keplicz)

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WARSAW — Visitors to Warsaw's zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage — humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in man's caveman ancestors.

Organizer Maria Mastalerz says the weeklong "performance" aims to attract interest in a play, "Caveman," showing in the Polish capital. But she says it also carries a message that humans today are not all that different from their prehistoric ancestors.

Dressed in furs and animal skins, the young woman and man smoked a fish over a fire Friday, poking it with a stick, or stared from behind bars at startled zoo visitors.

The display runs through Sunday.

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kiml

Are you sure that they are cavemen and not politicians?

  • 3 votes
Reply#1 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 11:11 AM EST
rickace

They're bit part actors who didn't make the cut for Geico ads on the telly.

  • 6 votes
#1.1 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:15 PM EST
Norcal2

The only difference would be they are twin's by another mother. ;-)

  • 3 votes
#1.2 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:18 PM EST
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Randilly

This story is rich with double meanings. I wonder which side of the bars constitutes the "zoo". I can't help but to think, Planet of the Apes.

  • 3 votes
Reply#2 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:24 PM EST
greg-709692

Wow!

Pelosi and Reid behind bars.

LMAO!

  • 2 votes
Reply#3 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 12:52 PM EST
Nan-813417

I think I dated that one on the right.

  • 5 votes
Reply#4 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:37 PM EST
Randilly

Was he a gentleman of some savage manners, or just a savage?

  • 3 votes
#4.1 - Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:50 PM EST
Nan-813417

[cave dweller, Indiana boy]

  • 3 votes
#4.2 - Sat Nov 28, 2009 8:23 PM EST
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Michael Thomas Warren

Really that look is catching on and quite stylish, have you noticed the "bed head" looks that's popular from TV shows like 'Friends'? I was all into that a few years ago when my lovely friends and neighbors thought it would be a great idea to make me homeless.

  • 3 votes
Reply#5 - Sat Nov 28, 2009 3:43 PM EST
SheepleOf1

What cute monkeys!!

  • 3 votes
Reply#6 - Sun Nov 29, 2009 11:28 AM EST
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