Ten铆a unos seis a帽os cuando mi abuelo me llev贸 al zool贸gico. Desde ese d铆a y por mucho tiempo me qued茅 con la idea de que los animales eran una gran familia, que viv铆an en una enorme casa en la que finalmente recalaban los m谩s aventureros y los solitarios a compartir con todos los dem谩s. Y por alguna raz贸n, los humanos hab铆amos sido excluidos de esa gran confraternidad. Solo 茅ramos visitantes y observadores, pero ajenos a ellos.
Llev谩bamos un par de horas de paseo hasta que nos detuvimos frente al recinto de los chimpanc茅s. Uno de ellos estaba sentado solo, mordisqueando una manzana. De pronto empez贸 a golpear el suelo r铆tmicamente con los pies. Luego comenz贸 a chillar, saltar y dar volteretas.
Los dem谩s chimpanc茅s tambi茅n empezaron a agitarse, y la jaula se convirti贸 muy r谩pidamente en un remolino de cuerpos saltadores y gritos agudos.
Yo estaba encantado con aquel espect谩culo improvisado. 驴Era una coreograf铆a, un baile o m谩s bien una fiesta muy divertida? Mi abuelo sonre铆a y me animaba a aplaudir junto a los otros curiosos.
A帽os despu茅s, record茅 ese d铆a y lo pens茅 desde otra perspectiva . Me di cuenta de que la "fiesta" del chimpanc茅 en realidad era una protesta, una explosi贸n de energ铆a reprimida. No era nada divertido vivir entre barrotes, sometido a serias limitaciones de espacio y movimiento, a las reglas absurdas de esclavitud, que el instinto y el amor propio de los animales rechazaban.
Ahora pienso que los chimpanc茅s estaban chillando y saltando porque buscaban alguna forma de escapar de su encierro.
Este texto corresponde a mi participaci贸n en el reto diario de @latino.romano y
@mariannewest, que nos anima a escribir en 5 minutos sobre una tem谩tica indicada. Gracias por leer este texto.
English Version
I was six years old when my grandfather took me to the zoo. From that day on and for a long time I stayed with the idea that animals were a great family, that they lived in a huge house where finally the most adventurous and the loners came to share with everyone else. And for some reason, humans had been excluded from that great brotherhood. We were only visitors and observers, but strangers to them.
We had been walking for a couple of hours when we stopped in front of the chimpanzee enclosure. One of them was sitting alone, nibbling on an apple. Suddenly he started to hit the ground rhythmically with his feet. Then he started to shriek, jump and somersault.
The other chimpanzees also started to stir, and the cage very quickly became a whirl of jumping bodies and shrill cries.
I was delighted with that improvised show. Was it a choreography, a dance or rather a very fun party? My grandfather was smiling and encouraging me to applaud along with the other curious.
Years later, I remembered that day and thought about it from another perspective. I realized that the chimpanzee's "party" was actually a protest, an explosion of suppressed energy. It was not fun at all to live between bars, subject to serious limitations of space and movement, to the absurd rules of slavery, which the instinct and self-love of animals rejected.
Now I think that the chimpanzees were shrieking and jumping because they were looking for some way to escape from their imprisonment.
Translated and formatted with Hive Translator by @noakmilo.
This text corresponds to my participation in the daily challenge of @latino.romano and
@mariannewest, which encourages us to write in 5 minutes on an indicated topic. Thank you for reading this text.
Texto escrito por @lovecraft21
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