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...reveled in man and beast alike. He was an avid lifetime member of the San Diego Zoo. If he was embittered at the failure of revolution and the waning of his own popularity, he did not show it. His own life-robust, naysaying, always provoking-was the best refutation of his theories. Tolerance never repressed...
...prized beast is threatened...
...Incas were so enamored of the beast that only the royal family was permitted to eat it or wear garments made from its wool. Under such protection, an estimated population of 2 million vicunña ran wild. But after the Incas' downfall the fragile creatures fell on hard times 'too Prized for their soft, fleecy wool (now selling for $90 a lb.),* the vicuñas became the buffalo of the Andes: there were fewer than 10,000 in Peru by the late 1960s, and they were practically wiped out elsewhere...
...World Wildlife Fund, warns that the decision will ensure the species' doom. But government officials, notably Antonio Brack, who worked with the World Wildlife Fund until he was tapped to head the Special Project for the Rational Use of the Vicuña, deny that the beast is threatened. Brack insists that the population is increasing so rapidly (by 23% a year) that the culling should not have any harmful long-range effect...
...inflatables would dodge into its way. The contemporary Ahab was forced to hold his fire lest he hit the protesters. Finally, after two misses, the captain got off his shot when one fin surfaced directly in front of the catch boat. It was a painfully slow demise for the beast; to minimize the danger to the protesters, Eythorsson had removed the explosive cap from the harpoon. Cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof of the grisly action: "The creature's struggle was unusually harrowing. Without the explosive, the fin lingered on until the captain fired a second 'cold' harpoon...