About the book: 2021 / A story about how at the end of the last century an experiment was conducted in a zoo in a provincial town that was supposed to increase the “intelligence” of a chimpanzee named Christina. The monkey became smarter and was able to get out of the cage at night, and at the same time released all the animals, incl. predatory. The greatest threat to the residents of the suburb was posed by a lion and a lioness, and the famous lion hunter and entomologist Harry Pook came to the city from abroad to organize their capture. Puk took as his assistant the “teacher” of the animals, zoo worker Pulcheria Euler. The wiser Christina unexpectedly intervened in the relationship of this couple.…