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...seen the human zoo...
Ranging from the carefree chirit, a long-bodied squirrel that moves by hunching its body inchworm-style, to the flooer, whose large pinkish ears mimic a flower to attract edible bees, Dixon's future zoo may suggest an imagination gone wild. But he is talking about a period 50 million years from now. And nature, the great experimenter, has already created creatures just as outrageous. -By Peter Stoler
...perform its mating ritual in a cage. Last month the state fish and game commission approved a more modest intervention: two birds to be radio-tagged and only three kept for breeding during the first year, one of them to be mated at the Los Angeles Zoo with Topa Topa, the only California condor now in captivity...
...Helms had always wanted to adopt a child. In a 1962 newspaper article, Helms spotted a Greensboro orphan, age nine, who had cerebral palsy and wanted parents for Christmas. Helms succumbed. They arranged to meet at the zoo. Charles Helms, now 27, recalls: "I never will forget how tall Daddy was. I could tell right from the start that they were a unit and stuck together. I had never experienced that." Before the adoption became official, Helms gave the boy some baseball equipment. "If you won't keep me," asked Charles, "can I keep the glove and ball?" Charles, whose...
...central caper of Setting Free the Bears, Irving's picaresque first novel, is a plot to release all the animals from the Vienna Zoo. The book was written and rewritten between 1965 and 1967 at the University of Iowa's Writers' Workshop. The impassioned, charging prose announced the arrival of a fresh talent...