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August 26, 2005
A group of wannabe-caveman have decided on an original way to spend their Bank Holiday weekend.
Eight people have agreed to become part of the attraction at London Zoo, and will spend three days being treated as animals.
Covered by some strategically placed leaves, the Human Zoo aims to demonstrate the primitive nature of man and the impact that our species has on the animal kingdom.
The outdoor dwellers were selected through an internet competition of 30 hopefuls and are looking forward to their novel experience.
"I'm a veterinary student so the idea of working for a zoo was something that appealed to me," said volunteer Simon Spiro, 19, from New Malden in Surrey.
"I thought it would be fun and interesting because I'm an outdoorsy kind of person," he commented, adding that he's taking pocket scrabble "in case we're bored".
Brendan Carr, 25, from Aylesbury, southern England, wrote a poem in his bid to get on the mountain.
"I'm funky like a monkey and as cool as a cat, talk more than a parrot, up all night like a bat," it went.
"I got a laugh like a hyena but get the hump like a camel, so cover me in fig leaves as I'm the ultimate mammal."
The volunteers will be allowed home for the night, providing them with a few hours escape from inquisitive eyes during their three-day camp.
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