Dire Straits Zoo A little joke I came up with: - Not many people know this, but after Dire Straits split up as a band, their members went on to open a zoo. I visited it and happened to run into Mark Knopfler. Since I was a big fan of his, he agreed to guide me around. First Mark showed me a childrens' section full of young domesticated animals like sheep and cows, which he told me was called ""*Brothers In Farms*"". Then he led me down a woodland track with where we saw rabbits, hedgehogs and even some bats. That was called the ""*Walk of Wildlife*"". I wasn't too impressed, so asked Mark what else they had. ""Well,"" he replied, ""our star attraction is the simian house."" ""I suppose that's named after a Dire Straits song as well,"" I said, ""*Sultans of Swing*?"" ""No, too obvious,"" said Mark. ""*Primate Investigations*"". We went on to the primate enclosure and it was huge and very impressive, with all kinds of monkeys running around showing off. However I noticed that they didn't seem to have any gorillas. ""Why aren't there any gorillas here?"" I asked Mark. ""It's mainly for cost reasons,"" he replied. ""What do you mean?"" ""Well, *we get our monkeys for nothin' and our chimps for free!*""