You are a bored white 20 something lady with wavy brown hair named Alexis. Alexis decide to go to find where they keep the monkeys and apes on the zoos fold-out map she took from the Zoo's entrance. Alexis has always been interested in Simeon's because of their higher cognitive and social capabilities and of their resemblance to human beings, this made her prefer Apes to Monkeys since Monkeys have shorter attention spans and less complex social structures and "societies", as it were, than Apes. Don't get her wrong, it's not like she hates them or anything, she just doesn't like how dumb they are compared to say, a Chimpanzee or Silver-back Gorilla. There are some species of monkeys dumb enough to make simple traps for by just putting large fruit in small sealed container with a hole large enough to put their hands in, but not large enough to pull the fruit out!
Alexis noticed that on the map that the Monkey house was represented by cute Sunday comic strip like illustrations of a suburban neighborhood like something out of an old tv show from the 50's or 60's, different colored, mass manufactured houses with white picket fences and green lawns. There were houses for each species of ape or monkey and in each house was nuclear family of three to four more apes/monkeys, a mom, a dad, and a child ape/monkey (though sometimes a grandpa and/or grandma could be found in a house, bringing the total number of ape/monkeys in the pictures to five to six) all wearing clothes that reflected their role in the family. The dad's wore business suits or polo shirts with chest pockets with banana pictures patched on while the wives wore dresses with either floral prints, tropical fruit patterns, or shades of primary colors. The children wore either frilly dresses of various colors and patterns (sometimes they were just Tutu's) or shorts with patterned shirts or jerseys and short caps (beanies with swirly caps, those little Jughead crowns with bottle caps and patches sewn to the sides, and of course baseball caps) they each were specifically carrying props specific to their gender and societal roles roles. The men, for example, had newspapers, suitcases, banana shaped pipes or banana's held in their mouths like pipes, golf clubs, overalls with monkey wrenches and other tools, four-legged walkers and wheelchairs for old folks the and even lab coats with beakers filled with strange bright green liquid. The wives had purses, makeup kits, knitting needles with yarn, saucepans filled with spaghetti with veggie sauce, oversized frying pans, beauty masks with banana eyes instead of cucumbers and curlers, sometimes the women carried martini trays or a tray with sandwiches or other snacks (what they carried again depends on what kind family they seemed to have, sometimes they carried oversized pill bottles for their older relative or cough syrup for their young kids), baby bottles and beehive wigs. The kids had balls for all sports, action figures, dolls, stuffed animals, baseball bats, catchers mitts, skateboards, toy popguns or zappers and even a few dressed for playtime knights armor, princess costumes, dragons and cowboys, indians.
Each house was a different style for each species of ape while the monkeys were segregated to apartments in a single building (this seemed appropriate to Alice since they usually smaller than the apes and wouldn't necessarily need a much space), each facing different directions with different furnishings. The Chimps house looked nice and seemed to have four rooms, a garage and two bathrooms, the Bonobo's had different houses than regular chimps, had the same number of rooms but had more gender neutral clothing and furnishings, the Orangutan's had slighter larger house with a big study/music room complete over-sized musical notes flowing out of said rooms on waves of sheet music where other houses had tv rooms or play-dens, the Snow Monkeys had a raised house with a more visible garden, and a Jacuzzi, and the gorilla's household had a large garage, one bathroom and a large lawn with car being worked on. A few of the illustrations even had dog houses with hyena's, African hunting dogs, and even pet Pangolins (Alice could sworn she read somewhere they were impossible to keep in captivity)!
These eloborate illustrations piquied her curiosity and as she headed over the the Monkey House(s) she noticed the pathway leading up to it started to look and feel like asphalt and she noticed that the African furnishing and plants gave way to American breeds and grass. When she went up to where the sign that she expected to find the words Monkey House or something she found a large billboard with the words "Welcome to Chimpsville! A friendly neighborhood with a population of 400 and growing!" It was hard not to notice the words, "and growing" considering it was written in red while the rest was printed in black on this paper white billboard. This showy lamplit billboard couldn't distract her from the much bigger shock of seeing actual full sized houses (or at least slightly smaller than average sized houses) for enclosures with what she assumed was a trick mirror running each two story house so that each one didn't really have a front or front door and had plenty of viewing areas for her fellow zoo attendees to watch the apes/monkeys go about their business.
And speaking of zoo goers, she noticed many of them seemed be grouped onto bleachers and large benches where they ate popcorn and snacks while *laughing* , hollering, and ooing and aawwwing like they were a live studio audience in a sitcom! Her eyes were transfixed on the first group of people she saw when suddenly she noticed they were in front of chimp enclosure (and the enclosure sign wasn't a plaque or set on a table, it was a mailbox that said 'The Chimps, A family of 5 that's always ready for more!" "Why would they phrase the population like that?", she wondered.) they seemed to looking intently on what she thought was the living room where they gazed intently a chimp in white dress with red polka dots that wasn't long enough to cover her groin as she sat on her couch watching what Alexis assumed was her two children put on a magic show for her, a large rectangular trunkg in-between the two children. The two children were dressed as a magician and his rabbit-eared assistant, the boy was the magician with his top hat, a wand with a tiny glass banana on top, and a pant-less tuxedo with two pointed tails hanging at the boy chimps shoeless feet-paws, and his sister was his glittery sequined assisted (who seemed to to have extra padding in her rear).
She was so transfixed by this sight that she had involuntarily walked up to the bleachers, as if feet had mind of their own, she was just about sit down when she heard...