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...field-trip destination is not the usual venue, like a museum or zoo. It's a Petco store. Tour guide Jennifer Rohan, manager of the Ramsey, N.J., pet-supply emporium, lets the kids pet a quivering chinchilla ($129.99, food and shelter sold separately), squawk at a taciturn macaw named Oscar ($2,399.99) and find Nemo the clown fish ($14.99). An hour later, the children are back on the bus clutching handout Petco-logo Frisbees and debating the merits of dogs vs. hermit crabs...
...have been grimly compiling what I call the Hundred Heartbeat Club of animal species--those consisting of a hundred or fewer individuals, hence that number of heartbeats away from total extinction. The club's more familiar members include the Javan rhinoceros, Philippine eagle, Hawaiian crow, Spix's macaw and Chinese river dolphin. Other endangered species lined up for early admission are the giant panda, Sumatran rhinoceros and mountain gorilla...
...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...
...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...