Where I'm from, Bastrop, Louisiana, you played football, basketball, and baseball; you ran track - and that was about it.

Zoos are becoming facsimiles - or perhaps caricatures - of how animals once were in their natural habitat. If the right policies toward nature were pursued, we would need no zoos at all.

Zoology has always been interesting to me. Nature is fascinating.

Zoologists study the behavior, physiology, classification and distribution of animals, whether they are living or extinct.