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Originally Posted by crispus
Fetching pictures indeed, Dalquaz; some outlets featured it straight, as:
"It's a hard life being a zoo keeper, as these intrepid souls working at Bristol Zoo demonstrate. Not only do you have to get up at the crack of dawn, deal with dangerous animals and shovel truckloads of dung, you sometimes get roped into taking part in nutty experiments. This team want to prove monkeys are no fools by carrying out their normal jobs naked to investigate the sensory sensitivity of gorillas. No gorillas were available for comment at the time of writing, so we'll have to wait and see whether they thought it was monkey madness or just totally bananas."
Most, however, tumbled to the date, as in:
"Sorry readers, you probably knew this already (being a well read lot) but this is an April Fools'. Ha, ha. As part of an April Fool, staff at Bristol Zoo Gardens perform tasks naked as part of a fictional experiment into the sensory sensitivity of gorillas. 31/03/2011."
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I missed this the first time around, but I just stumbled across a high res version of this, complete with a slip that's impossible to see in the low res version, plus a few bonus shots (linked because watermark, click the photo for higher res):
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/as-part-of-an-april-fool-staff-at-bristol-zoo-gardens-news-photo/809023984
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/as-part-of-an-april-fool-staff-at-bristol-zoo-gardens-news-photo/809024018
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/as-part-of-an-april-fool-staff-at-bristol-zoo-gardens-news-photo/809023998
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/as-part-of-an-april-fool-staff-at-bristol-zoo-gardens-news-photo/809023962