Easy for me to boycott it at this distance. Unfortunately, I have the queasy feeling that most of my relatives would applaud the action that was taken.

They probably visit the zoo every weekend, just to gloat....

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It is hard to convey five-dimensional ideas in a language evolved to scream defiance at the monkeys in the next tree. -- The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch, by Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart & Jack Cohen