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Show BOB BRUM FIELDS "I don't care" SJ don't have any plans for going to their habitats, and it is highly doubtful that a herd of black rhinos will ever come charging down Vine Street, so I'm really not overly concerned. However, if nature decides that they must go the way of Tyran-nosaurus Tyran-nosaurus Rex, I'm going to remain pretty dry-eyed about the matter. To be perfectly candid about it I can think of several names I would like to see added to the "almost extinct creatures" list. Up near the top would be snakes, spiders, sharks, barracudas, bees, hornets, wasps, bears and any other creature, lare or small, with fangs. claws, stingers, or pine?.! inclination to use trter r-Lower r-Lower on the fc- unworthy, in myestimff personal concern lii survival would be Iv moths, hairy worms, tc Cincinnati Transit Co. W (who never pulls in it Vine and Fifth, butler' end of his rig out ' blocking traffic all the Washington Way : and itinerant maga! who wake you up taking a nap. From the Cm: The American alligator, the black-tailed prairie dog, the black rhinoceros, the snow leopard and a lot of other animals and birds are said to be in danger of becoming extinct. And do you know what? I don't really care. I wish I did care. I sense that I should care. But I don't. I could lie about it. I could pretend that I am really concerned about the fate of the orangutan, the Bali mynah, the giant anteater and the maned wolf. I could become quite militant about saving the pygmy hippopotamus and the Laysan and Hawaiian ducks and the Galapagos tortoise, but it would be just as hypocritical for me to do so as it would be for me to devote my energies to saving organized baseball or league bowling. The black rhinoceros is a disgusting creature as far as I'm concerned. I've seen enough Tar-zan Tar-zan movies to know that they have terrible dispositions. So does the American alliaatnr I am certain that were I to make any sort of friendly overture to one of these creatures it would do its best to kill me. Perhaps, if I were plagued by giant ants, I might be more solicitous about the welfare of the giant anteater, but I'm not. And as for the rare duck species that are on the verge of extinction, I am sure that without their feathers, and baked to a golden brown, they would look pretty much like any other kind of duck to me-delicious. me-delicious. ridl'J ,d not want them destroyed. I mean, I'm not going ?t r rv Wavut0 ex,enate them It really ,sn't that important to me I |