Escaped Ape

One day an ape escaped from the Bronx Zoo. They searched for him everywhere, in every borough. They announced his disappearance on the radio and television as well as the newspapers. But, no one reported seeing the ape.

At last, he was discovered in the New York Public Library. Officials of the zoo as well as the animal handlers were summoned to the library. They found the ape sitting at a desk in the reading room with two books spread out in front of him. The ape was reading with great concentration. One book was the Bible; the other was The Origin of the Species, by Darwin.

The zoo keepers asked the ape what he was doing. The ape replied, "I’m trying to figure out whether I am my brother’s keeper or whether I am my keeper’s brother."