While I don’t equate zoos with Sea World, generally I’d prefer that they didn’t exist, despite the good that they may do in research, attempting to preserve endangered species, perhaps broadening public awareness of conservation, and enabling children a brief summer escape from the war zones in which some of them live.  (Those in blue shirts below were part of one such group.)

        Nevertheless we went to Lincoln Park Zoo yesterday. 

        As I child I knew Lincoln Park Zoo through Marlin Perkins’ television program, Zoo Parade, the predecessor to Wild Kingdom.

        In the Wikipedia article about him I came across this story:

        Because Walt Disney had fabricated footage of a mass         suicide of lemmings in its film WHITE WILDERNESS then CBC         journalist Bob McKeown asked Marlin Perkins if he had done         the same. Perkins, then in his eighties, "firmly asked for the         camera to be turned off, then punched a shocked McKeown         in the face."