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| erent flight distances and they gauge
them in different ways. Cats lookdeer listenbears smell. Giraffes will allow you to come to within thirty yards of them if you are in a motor carbut will run if you are 150 yards away on foot. Fiddler crabs scurry when you’re ten yards away; howler monkeys stir in their branches when you’re at twenty; African buffaloes react at seventy-five. Our tools for diminishing flight distance are the knowledge we have of an animalthe food and shelter we providethe protection we afford. When it worksthe result is an emotionally stable stress-free wild animal that not only stays putbut is healthylives a very long timeeats without fussbehaves and socializes in natural ways and—the best sign—reproduces. I won’t say that our zoo compared to the zoos of San Diego or Toronto or Berlin or Singaporebut you can’t keep a good zookeeper down. Father was a natural. He made up for a lack of formal training with an intuitive gift and a keen eye. He had a knack for looking at an animal and guessing what was on its mind. He was attentive to his chargesand theyin returnmultipliedsome to excess. C H A P T E R I O Yet there will always be animals that seek to escape from tembea mbt |
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