David Burnett's Blog – March 2010 Archive (1)

The other day I came across a beautiful love story unlike any I had ever heard of. It was in a book by Dr. Loren Eisely of the University of Pennsylvania, and it goes like this... "We had, in addition, instructions to lay hands on the present. The word had come through to get them alive --birds, reptiles, anything. A zoo somewhere abroad needed restocking. It was one of those reciprocal matters in which science involves itself. Maybe our museum needed a stray ostrich egg and this was the…