Once there was a strange zoo. No it
wasn’t magical; no unicorns, no dragons, no werewolves, no vampires. It wasn’t
the creatures that were strange; they were regular animals that one might
expect to see there. Monkeys. Lions. Bears. No there was nothing unusual about
the appearance of the creatures themselves, but their behaviors were a different
story.
It was the animals’ behaviors that
made this zoo strange. One instance stands out in all of the zookeepers’ minds;
the day that the half monkey-half cockatoo was born.
This combination should never have
been. Two different species, both seemingly male, made an offspring; an
offspring that shocked anyone who has ever seen it. He had the head of a
monkey, wings of a cockatoo, and a really freaky tail.
“What an odd creature,” the
visitors would say.
“He’s the oddest creature we have
ever had.”
“He most certainly is,” the
visitors would respond, walking away to the next exhibit, shaking their heads.
They named the creature Jay.
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