UNDER THE BAMBOO TREE

摘要

In what's become a common sight at the Leipzig Zoo, the 127-year-old menagerie in the northwestern reaches of Saxony, visitors are often spotted strolling and conversing while artfully concealed behind a wall of bamboo stalks. Given the practice of creating natural, open habitats that is now de rigeur for leading zoological parks, the scenario wouldn't seem terribly unusual. It wouldn't, at least, until one considers that the forested socializing is not taking place inside the zoo itself, but outside the main gate—in a parking garage.