We, this year, have slipped quietly onto the endangered
species list…our numbers have been depleted by 40%
over the past 3 decades. At this rate, we will become
extinct very soon. People complain about us being in
zoos. Some zoos are keeping us from disappearing with
breeding programs and seeing we don’t get sick from Aids,
or poached either. I’d rather be in a zoo than be shot or sick
on the plains of Africa.
*From Elizabeth Bachinsky's poem Of a Time from the
book Home of Sudden Service.
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