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For decades, He built his machine, hand-milling each rod and cog…  It would be his crowning achievement.  The end was at hand.

Over the years, bats had taken residence inside the deeper parts of the machine.

Finally, he started the machine, which promptly blew up.

It’s raining bats and cogs!

When the zoo was abandoned, many of the animals died, for lack of care.

Not the monkeys!  They thrived, using their above-average intelligence (for animals) to mimic the humans who once took care of them.

They multiplied. There was monkey shit everywhere.

A sea of monkeys.

Monkey sea, monkey doo-doo.