Flaco the owl’s troubled freedom: A meditation on zoos, stories and empathy
SalonExcerpted from " The Book of Flaco: The World's Most Famous Bird " by nature writer David Gessner, available now from Blair. It was raining when I arrived at the Central Park Zoo, two weeks after the owl’s death, and at first I couldn’t find Flaco’s cage and I wondered if it had been dismantled. Instead they could have said, ‘What story can we tell?’ They could have led weekly walks to see Flaco, right?” An irony here is that another primary goal for zoos is to educate people by letting them observe animals. Something that we could not offer him here.” New Yorkers hold a memorial for Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle owl who died last week, leaving cards in his memory under a tree where he often roosted, March 3, 2024 in Central Park, New York City, New York. “One of the things that made Flaco so popular was that he was an individual,” David Barrett, whose X account, Manhattan Bird Alert, was Mission Control during the Flaco year.
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