Gone but never forgotten: Honzo!
In 1952, Austrian big-game hunter and Africa
researcher
<http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Zwilling>Ernst
Zwilling (a colonial revisionist and member of
the Nazi party) brought a male chimpanzee from
Cameroon to Schönbrunn, the Viennese zoo. In his
African home, Honzo had reportedly been a
friendly and amiable animal, but in the zoo he
began to show a rather violent temper. Due to his
choleric outbreaks, poor Honzo was kept in
solitary confinement. The chimpanzee was given
beer and cigarettes. He got addicted and died an
alcoholic and chain-smoker. After his death, the
chimp was taxidermied (see above picture) and put
into the <http://www.nhm-wien.ac.at/>Viennese
Museum of Natural History. Now people from all over the world stare at him.
We want to create a page that is dedicated to
Honzo: the victim, the choleric, the drug abuser.
Please send your images (max. width 500 px),
videos (YouTube links or such), scanned drawings,
whatever! Show us that you care about Honzo and his sad, sad fate!
Email us your <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"Tribute to Honzo".
<http://www.monochrom.at/honzo>Link to public gallery
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Posted By johannes to
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at 6/15/2008 06:55:00 PM
