This time, the message is… let the wild things… be… wild.

Do go read for yourselves, but his art is now defaced or stolen within hours… due to its collectible value — which also rings true, as an ironic counterpoint to the ideal… of letting the “wild” — stay wild. Here’s the CNN version:

…A mural by elusive street artist Banksy showed a gorilla holding up the entrance gate as birds took flight and a sea lion waddled away. Three sets of eyes peered out from the darkness inside.

The painting may explain why Bansky-created creatures — from a mountain goat perched on a building buttress to piranhas circling a police guard post to a rhinoceros mounting a car — have been showing up in the most unlikely places around London for nine straight days….

The rhino that appeared Monday was tagged with graffiti. A wolf silhouette on a roof-mounted satellite dish — appearing to howl at the moon — was stolen hours after word got out about the artwork last week.

A big cat, stretching out on the back of a dilapidated billboard, was removed within hours by three men who said they had been hired to take it down for safety reasons….

We all well-know… these majestic creatures… should never have been caged. We know it. Out.

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