Word: macaw
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...able to take in the interior sounds and the overarching silence by which they and I were subsumed. Something momentous was about to happen, or had already happened, 10 million years ago. I could hear the air. Everything became important--the flesh of the leaves, the braided vines, a macaw overhead, the smallest insect. A bug the size of a piece of dust crawled across my hand as I wrote about it crawling across my hand...
Animal Kingdom tries to preserve wildlife while making it part of the show. The Conservation Station provides an education lite on wildlife and rain forests and has an animal E.R. that shows surgeons at work on, say, a macaw's anus. Keeping the animals healthy is the evocatively named Peregrine Wolff, 39, director of veterinary services. Importing 1,000 animals to central Florida (mostly from zoos and wildlife centers) has been an education for everyone. "The mammals are trained to come in at night," says Wolff. "Do they always? No. The white rhinos went on a five-day love feast...
Well, they don't call it the Ex for nothing. Questionable meanings and meaningful questions form the heart of the singularly brave and bizarre "The Hyacinth Macaw," a challenging play filled with vibrant language, energetic acting and the disconcerting sense that often there are times when neither audience nor actors know exactly what is happening. Ultimately, "Macaw" affirms that we are challenged most when the familiar is made strange, but at the same time illustrates some dangers in doing...
...genre is wrong: as a radio play the musicality of the monologues, the ritual speeches, and the sound effects would come across very well as would the more expressive silences. But so long as one overlooks the difficulties that no doubt come with the new territory, "The Hyacinth Macaw" certainly offers a philosophical challenge, if not always a cohesive play...
...exuberantly colored and gregarious macaws, however, are the celebrity fauna of the region. During a three-hour motorized canoe ride up the Manu River, we saw 327 of the loquacious birds in a scintillating array of colors: red and green, blue and yellow, scarlet. Munn estimates that each macaw in the $ region could generate between $750 and $4,700 a year in tourist revenue -- far more over the bird's lifetime than if the animals were caught and sold...