[crisscross]

having spent a couple of years in Kenya in my youth, I found it exciting to start seeing lots of large animal pics on the web, but then looking at most of them, an element of absurdity took over. A giraffe without a thorn tree is like it being 3 legged and big cats lounging on lumps of concrete even worse. We used to take people on a flip through the Nairobi game park, I think several dozen square miles on the way into town from the airport and even that seemed a bit over-compressed.

As far as breeding and rescue and educational programmes are concerned, it would be nice if they could be funded without the deadening hand of commercialisation which can kill off the joy of almost anything.