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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Thursday, September 30, 2004

Zoo Gnus

The Chronicle's Patricia Yollin reports on a pair of mischievous grizzly cubs to be adopted by the S.F. Zoo. The article has no accompanying pictures, unfortunately.
The year-old sisters will arrive in the city next week, bringing to seven the population of grizzlies in California, where once they flourished in the wild.

The sisters lost their mother late last fall when she was humanely destroyed by Montana's wildlife officials.

"She ran into some human-conflict situations," said Stella Capoccia, director of the Montana Wildlife Center, a state agency in Helena. "Bears will get a number of opportunities. They'll be moved and tagged. She had exhausted her opportunities."
I find it so hard to believe that the best way of dealing with "problematic" members of a highly endangered species is to kill them. I'm glad there was a better resolution for these cubs, but their mother should have been spared as well.
|| Andrew, 10:36 AM || ||

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