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Laughing at you, not with you

10,000 Birds

The shame would kill them. The Scaly Laughingthrush (Baihualing, Yunnan) once finished as runner-up at a birds-that-look-like-reptiles contest that was won by a Scaly Thrush (not shown). “ San Diego Zoo ” is also a nice song by the 6ths (mostly Stephin Merritt, in this song with Barbara Manning singing).

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When conservation and animal rights collide

10,000 Birds

One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. He often defended that role in his books from animal rights activists who opposed “imprisoning” animals in zoos even if it saved them from extinction.