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People Who Want to Ban Circus Animals are Bozos?

Animal Person

Henican writes: The truth of the matter, of course, is that most city kids will never have the chance to visit the wilds of Africa and Asia, assuming there are any wilds left in the decades to come. The only way most of us will ever see an elephant (or a tiger or a hippo) is on the National Geographic Channel, at a circus or in a zoo.

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What makes a good bird guide?

10,000 Birds

I will equally recommend a guide who finds the target bird and the one who does everything within birding ethics to find it and fails. I remember one guide in the south of Africa. Still, I do remember a long drop loo in one national park in central India, with an inscription: “There are no guarantees that you will see the tiger.

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