Warsaw, Poland - Visitors to the Warsaw Zoo are being greeted by two "Homo sapiens" peering out from a cage - humans in animal skins trying to spark interest in our caveman ancestors.

Organiser Maria Mastalerz says the week-long "performance" aims to attract interest in a play, Caveman, showing in the Polish capital.

But she says it also carries a message that humans today are not all that different from their prehistoric ancestors.

Dressed in furs and animal skins, the young woman and man smoked a fish over a fire on Friday, poking it with a stick, or stared from behind bars at startled zoo visitors.
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