Seeing the horse running free within a restricted area instead of the green where there would be no ends, an elephant cub chaining to the wall with a bell around it’s neck, giving us the impression of a house cat, snake being passed from one to another at one photography session and the centipede which loses the jaw becoming the star of the day on one’s hand, an indescribable urge comes up. There are times where our curiosity leads us from a thought to an action, giving us the desire wanting to know more than what we knew, to be able to feel what we don’t usually do. Having the unusual species appears in our sight, we may go excited and terrified in the same time, for it is something new and unknown. Come to think of it, does the bond between man and animals exist in the first place, before one is to lock the latter up and having them tamed? We do not play with the centipede if the jaw hasn’t been taken off, we do not place the snake around the neck if we know it is still poisonous, we do not simply go to an elephant and hug them, letting them to lift us up from the ground if it is not tamed and last but not least, we don’t just ride on the horses if they do not have horseshoes on their hooves. In the movies, we find the alien to be cruel for kidnapping several humans for further studies, but what about us who brought the ‘wild’ animals from their far away homelands, having them chained up and pose for photo shoots? Not to mention there are those who have been transported from one country to another as presents on the name to produce more generations in foreign lands. Are we not aliens to them as well? Still, curiosity has overcome rationality. Gosh, that hamster is so cute!
