One of the truisms of life is that you can’t judge a book by its cover. Things are not always what they seem. I read a delightful story, allegedly true, about a zoo in Spain that decided to conduct an emergency drill. The drill simulated how to handle it if a gorilla escaped from its enclosure. To make the drill more realistic, a zookeeper dressed up as a gorilla and took off loping through the zoo.

Unfortunately, not everyone on staff was notified about the drill. Upon seeing a “gorilla” fleeing from its cage, one of the zoo veterinarians grabbed a tranquilizer gun and shot the employee in the leg.

“Well,” he said, “it looked like a gorilla was escaping!” (1)

You can’t always judge a book by its cover. Some things are not as they might appear.

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