Clean your room

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/08/05/congo.gorillas/?imw=Y&iref=mpstoryemail


Having had children, I can attest that they can misplace a myriad of things in their rooms. After my older children left home, I cleaned out from under the bed, cleaned out closets and dressers and found things that I had forgotten I even owned.
Jewelry, clothes, shoes, underwear (that was in my daughter's room) And from my son's room, were books, movies, games, and over the counter medicines (bandaids, tylenol, tums, et al)
That is pretty much par for the course if you ask any mother that has ever cleaned up after her children have left home. And I will admit that there were occasions that I opened their bedroom doors when they were teenagers, that I was tempted to firebomb the whole house, just because rebuilding would have been easier than to get those kids to clean up the mess they called bedrooms.
And I have seen lots of odd things get misplaced in the black hole which are teenager's bedrooms. Everything from shoes and backpacks to clothes and homework. But I have never seen anything messy enough where you would lose 125,000 gorillas. And, yes, I've read the reports.....the numbers were underestimated. These gorillas were hiding. Whatever the reason is, I can just see the mother of the head researcher--hands on hips, looking at him with that look that parents use oh so well. "Well young man--I told you that room was messy. I went in there to clean up and LOOK what I found!!! 125,000 Gorillas. "