The Apes of Marbella

They, about sixty apes, are to be given pensions. That is, they are to be accorded luxury apartments in the Spanish resort of Marbella. These accommodations are in monetary terms three times what people receive for welfare payments in the region.

They, about thirteen animals, have died at the Sao Paulo Zoo. They were residents of the Zoo. An orangutan, a bison, and a camel have been more recently murdered. Among the dead are three apes. Sodium fluoroacetate, in other words, rat poison, was used. This rat poison is banned in Brazil.

Spanish villas can accommodate apes who have been needled for many years in order to investigate how the flu progresses. They were repeatedly made ill because, as all evolutionists know, apes are like human beings. No human beings, of late, have been so treated. Having been repeatedly transformed from the assaults by needle, the surviving apes deserve better than death or better than being put into the confines of zoos.

But south of the equator, zoos can be death traps for the incarcerated. Those poor zoo animals died on the job, so to speak, and are thereby denied retirement. It is rare to find human beings confined to overt zoos. For the most part, it is thought that those with rational souls should not be so housed.

Animals have been typified as having irrational souls and so apparent human beings have been confined in zoo-like quarters called prisons for a good many years. That is, some of the imprisoned have been called animals. Then, having an irrational soul, leads one to suspect that the zoo-like status is deserved.

If you are an ape, you could be in a research lab, a zoo, a villa, or elsewhere. As a criminal and no animals are criminal, you could be in a lab, a prison, a villa, or elsewhere. The only distinction is found in zoo occupancy. If you are in a zoo, you are an ape.

A serial killer loose in a prison besetting animals (should they truly have such a status) and human beings is doubly reprehensible in murderous factors. Repeated killing of zoo animals is not going to bring forth the same degree of forensic skill applied to solving the mystery.

If the animals were rare, endangered, national symbols, or otherwise distinguished, then more diagnostic skill could be expected for delving into motives. Should the apes in the villas become subject to rat poison, could one assume the cream of the police crème would be on the scene? Villa apes would be in outward appearance almost synonymous with retired or imprisoned human beings. As much police procedure would have to be expended upon crimes perpetuated against villa apes as would be performed for crimes against criminals.