Thomas French — American Journalist

Thomas French is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist who worked for the St. Petersburg Times for 27 years. After his retirement from the Times, he turned to teaching and occupies the Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism at Indiana University School of Journalism and teaches in Goucher College's creative nonfiction MFA program... (wikipedia)

All zoos are both beguiling and repellent.
Freedom is a human concept. We have these very romanticized, sentimentalized notions of freedom. And for species - monkeys and other creatures - freedom is a pretty risky, complex proposition that's not always for their benefit.
What's the reality of being inside a zoo, for the animals and for the people who love and care for those animals? There's a lot of joy, and there's a lot of loss.