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Article: 'WITH FEATHERS' ELEGANTLY CHRONICLES VANISHED BIRDS.(AT HOME)
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- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- June 3, 2000
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In the early 1970s, the director of the Zurich Zoo traveled to Cincinnati not to see the hills, taste the food or remark on the city's German heritage.
He came to visit the Cincinnati Zoo, the place where Martha, the last passenger pigeon, had died in 1914. When the Zurich director found no marker, he was surprised. And Ed Maruska, the Cincinnati Zoo's director, was embarrassed.
'We made a vow that we'd never let a species go extinct at the zoo again,'' he said.
That anecdote is one of many detailed in Christopher Cokinos' new book, ''Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds'' (Putnam, $25).
Cokinos, a ...