I heard this report on NPR yesterday while driving home: A condor, which was captured 15 years ago, is being released back into the wild. He was the last free condor before he was caught, and now, after fathering about 70 zillion baby condors in captivity, he's supposed to go back and demonstrate to his offspring *how to be wild*. After not being wild for 15 years. It just struck me as a huge burden for this bird -- he's basically been charged with saving his entire race, first through genetics and now through being an example of something I'm sure he feels is a little rusty. Poor Igor/AC9. He's really cute (looks like he's mugging for the camera, actually, check out the pictures on the right-hand side of the article) and seems like he'd be flying around thinking, "I save an entire population and this is the thanks I get? A bunch of little brats following me around and no more free food from those ugly things descended from apes."
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