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We spent the morning at the awesome American Museum of Natural History<\/a>. I went through the halls enjoying the exhibits until I came to the African mammal halls. You walk in to a very dark room and in dim lights, a herd of elephants seem to be move silently through. But in real life, elephants are anything but silent. As we went by the various exhibits with Bushbucks, Leopard, Cheetah it occurred to me, something was very wrong. The main important element of these critters was horribly missing. Life!<\/p>\n

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Then we came to the Black Rhino exhibit and it occurred to me, I might never see them other than as live mounts in an exhibit. Even though I’m going to where they should be in two months<\/a>, the odds off seeing them are slim to none at best. And not that I’m trying to depress you, but I was rather depressed with that thought. Sadly, we’ve all experienced the passing of someone dear in our lives and know the emptiness that brings. Loosing a species to extinction and for such a stupid reason as poaching, well, leaves an even greater emptiness. Leaving that hall and those live mounts, it was simply a very sobering moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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