Zoo Nebraska - Snap Classic

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4.8 • 11.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The story of a chimpanzee and a man whose dream brought disaster to a small American town.

This story details violence against animals. Sensitive listeners, please be advised.

Thank you, Carson Vaughan, for sharing your story with Snap! Read more about Zoo Nebraska in Carson’s book, Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream.

Additional thanks to Patti Ragan from the Center for Great Apes.

Produced by John Fecile and Carson Vaughan, original score by Renzo Gorrio

Additional production by Jesse Dukes and Pat Mesiti-Miller

Artwork by Teo Ducot

Interested in protecting Great Apes? Learn more at the Center for Great Apes

Season 13 – Episode 18 - Snap Classic

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0:00.0	Snap, judgment, studios.
0:18.0	When I was four years old, my parents took me to the Detroit Zoo.
0:23.0	And there we walked by a chimp, kept in a cage looking out at us, looking out at me.
0:29.0	And it was prison.
0:31.0	And something inside, I saw him and me, I saw me and him, and I screamed.
0:39.0	I wept, I begged for them to let them out, let them out.
0:43.0	My parents eventually had to take me home.
0:48.0	And later, I read everything I could about the great apes.
0:51.0	Watch everything I could about them on the TV.
0:54.0	Imagine myself, apes and Jane Goodall.
0:58.0	In fact, just consider the chimpanzee.
1:02.0	They share 98% of our DNA.
1:04.0	They laugh when you tickle them.
1:07.0	They can see and recognize themselves in mirrors.
1:10.0	They live in groups, and they communicate using vocalizations and body language.
1:15.0	When you look at a chimpanzee, you're seeing a highly intelligent creature.
1:22.0	Creature capable of joy, and anger, and sadness.
1:26.0	They experience depression, they grieve.
1:29.0	The quote Jane Goodall,
1:31.0	there is no sharp lie between humans and the rest of the animal kingdom.
1:37.0	It's a blurry lie.
1:39.0	And that's why I have to let you know that this episode,
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