“Under normal circumstances, in their natural habitats, wild animals do not mutilate themselves, masturbate, attack their offspring, develop stomach ulcers, become fetishists, suffer from obesity, form homosexual pair-bonds, or commit murder. Among human city dwellers, needless to say, all of these things occur.”

(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )

John Lentell

1st May, 1970

(Rejected for publication by the Rhodesia Herald for being in ‘poor taste’ )

“If males wish to appear super-normally young, they can wear toupees to cover their bald heads, false teeth to fill their gaping mouths, and corsets to hold in their sagging bellies. Young executives, who wish to appear super-normally old, have been known to indulge in artificially greying of their juvenile hair.”

(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )

John Lentell

1st May, 1970

“Only when there are 150,000 fewer fertilizations per day than there are at present, will we be holding the human population steady at its already overgrown level.”

(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )

John Lentell

18th April, 1970

“……the rebels and innovators….in a smaller tribal community, would be subjected to much greater cohesive forces. They would be flattened by the demands of conformity.”

(Desmond Morris, 1928 – )

John Lentell

14th April, 1970

“Biologically speaking, man has the inborn task of defending three things: himself, his family and his tribe.”

(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )

John Lentell

11th December, 1969

“The fact that internal squabbles are suppressed by the existence of a common enemy has not escaped the attention of rulers past and present. If an overgrown super-tribe is beginning to split at the seams, the splits can rapidly be stitched up by the appearance of a powerful hostile THEM that converts us into a unified US.”

(From The Human Zoo by Desmond Morris, 1928 – )

John Lentell

10th December, 1969