I wonder how the zookeeper has the nerve to passive aggressively tell us that it was wrong of us to have our coffee in the primate area. Okay, so we didn't notice the sign on the door that said no food or drink. However, I don't think our coffee is so much the problem as much as the pitiful conditions of the primate exhibit. Maybe I would be passive-aggressive too if I had to look at myself in the mirror after working with those poor chimps in the primate exhibit or the flamingos in that pathetic looking room with water on the floor and some shitty painting of their habitat on the wall. My son loves the place, but he doesn't know any better. I'd rather they charge and keep the animals in better conditions, and maybe not have to worry about our coffees because the animals would be in a more adequate setting. There are also nicer ways of addressing such issues than being a passive aggressive crumudgeon. Honestly, I've worked in prisons and the conditions of the animals at Vilas seem more like a prison than anything that remotely seems like their natural habitat. I'll go back for my son, but once he's old enough, I'll make sure he understands the difference between places like the Brookfield Zoo and Lincoln Park Zoo in the Chicago area, and pathetic excuses for zoos like Vilas.