The Museum of Non-Primate Art

It has always amazed me how, when playing with animals, there's often such a powerful sense of equality. I mean, I'm superior to my cats, no? So how come when we play together it feels like they're making up the rules?

Thinking of cats as playmates is but a short pounce from thinking of them as artists. The museum of Non-Primate Art takes a bold leap into human-animal play, ascribing to birds, cats and soon elephants, termites, and dogs an aesthetic sensibility that goes beyond mere art appreciation. We contemplate, for example, the subtleties of "splay anatomy" - the designs made by bird droppings. The Anatomy of a Splay identifies five major Splay-forms: the Schplerter, the Schplutz, the Sklop, the Splerd and the Splood. Oddly, there's no mention of the Splat.

If all of this makes you wonder whether you should take this site seriously or as some kind of joke, then you can consider your visit to the Museum of Non-Primate Art a complete success.