A police escort took them to the Los Angeles Zoo Infirmary where they were again caged in a large enclosure, and disconsolate Zira complained: "This cage stinks of gorilla.They were led on ramps or walkways to an open courtyard or plaza in the city""s Civic Center where they were being trained for slave labor to perform menial tasks: to make beds, shine shoes, carry heavy loads, set tables, sweep trash, mop floors, paint walls, wash windows, etc.The many large sows taken to market were replaced by an impersonal, robotic milk-feeding machine.One small piglet from a doomed sow""s litter was randomly selected:"Perhaps it was because he was alone...Follow the lines in the earth only gods can read which lead to Orellana""s cradle guarded by the living dead.[Note: There were other cracking images throughout the film, including the image of the cracking of the sidewalk pavement - and of course, the protagonist""s mentally-deranged, disintegrating and schizophrenic mind.