212 Comments

I didn’t say it was. My reply was in response to the notion that AR nuts wouldn’t harm animals.

Expand full comment

Chap (or Lady) looks positively Victorian.

Expand full comment

I don't think it would either and they would deserve every single thing that happened to them.

Expand full comment

Someone's trying break into the illegal exotic pets market.

Expand full comment

Every Australian wildlife rehabber has a wild variety of sacks. Because most of the babies they'll be hand-raising are marsupials, and would normally be in their mother's pouch.

Expand full comment

Enough monkeying around ..

https://www.youtube.com/wat...

Expand full comment

I live in Dallas and these incidents have been very upsetting. The zoo may lose its accreditation because of the apparent lack of safety. When the leopard disappeared we all assumed it was some drug lord who wanted it as a trophy pet. The fact that this person locked the tamarins in an unheated house with no food or water in below freezing conditions in very shocking.

Expand full comment

The most Suessian creature ever.

Expand full comment

That is Def cool.

Expand full comment

Terrible :-)

Expand full comment

*resists sudden urge to dump chore list for a binge-reading of all the Encyclopedia Brown books still in the home library, from Scholastic Book Club days*

Expand full comment

a true hero for the masses, indeed.

Expand full comment

It’s been my experience that the more radical animal rights activists don’t really care about outcomes they want the spectacle. “Better free and dead than alive in cages” sounds good until one rationally confronts the reality. Which often includes harm to other species, damage to local ecosystems, and spread of zoonotic disease.

There’s a sensible middle ground. But both ends of the spectrum make it hard to meet there.

Expand full comment

I’ll have to check my news feed; I thought a saw a headline suggesting it was a weather balloon that blew off course.

Expand full comment

Reblup attack chihuahua yips.

Expand full comment