general Zoos

This link is a CNN.com story about zoos in New Orleans and other hurricane-affected areas. Overall, it’s good news; pets (and, of course, people) fared much, much worse than zoo animals.

There is, however, one line in this story that begs more details, given the nature of the flooding:

A crocodile from the research center was missing, said Rhett A. Butler, a conservationist and founder of the Web site mongabay.com.

The poor guy’s name is Rhett Butler.

But seriously, this doesn’t concern anyone? That crocodile could be anywhere by now.