The Europeans treated Africa as their principal supplier of wild animals. Rare and valuable animals were sold to circuses, museums and zoos all over the world where visitors went to see "Nature's great masterpiece" stand on one leg, a ball perched upon its trunk.
千年後，蘇彞士運河開通，歐洲商人深入黑暗大陸，將非洲當成供應野生動物的大本營，出售珍奇異獸至世界各地馬戲團、博物館、動物園。遊客也以觀賞造物主最偉大的作品表演金雞獨立、長鼻頂球為樂。