1. Mooallem, Jon. Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story about Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. New York: Penguin, 2013. Print.
2. In the section, “Birds,” Mooallem claims that the whooping crane population is dwindling, and we should try to recover the population from the damage human population has created to their environment.
3. The efforts put forth may end up removing the wildness out of the cranes, and make them just as common, and unafraid or people as the goose, or the duck. The wildness of the birds is at stake, but is that worth risking if the population is recovered? Much of what Mooallem is also claiming is that the many projects and foundations for the cranes as well as other birds, could just be something that is for the people to feel better about themselves. That they are not letting a species die out, and they are giving it to the next generation to try to save.
4. The types of evidence used here is mainly from the conservation project. Some was witnessed firsthand when the author was with Operation Migration, and saw what the cranes were doing, and how they reacted to the people. Some were anecdotes from those he interviewed in the project. He was told many stories …show more content…
Mooallem considers two different perspectives on the same issue when one of the Operation Migration worker’s states, ‘It’s not a bird project, it’s a people project. The birds are an excuse for doing something good” (278). Earlier in the text, when someone watched the cranes flying behind the planes, he exclaimed it was “utterly selfless” and that ‘it’s just about the birds. It’s not about the people doing it” (230). These are two different perspectives from different viewpoints of the project. He does not give a final saying on what is right; he leaves it to the reader to decide whether saving the cranes is just to help the people feel like they are doing something good, or are actually doing a great thing for a species that is dying
2. In the section, “Birds,” Mooallem claims that the whooping crane population is dwindling, and we should try to recover the population from the damage human population has created to their environment.
3. The efforts put forth may end up removing the wildness out of the cranes, and make them just as common, and unafraid or people as the goose, or the duck. The wildness of the birds is at stake, but is that worth risking if the population is recovered? Much of what Mooallem is also claiming is that the many projects and foundations for the cranes as well as other birds, could just be something that is for the people to feel better about themselves. That they are not letting a species die out, and they are giving it to the next generation to try to save.
4. The types of evidence used here is mainly from the conservation project. Some was witnessed firsthand when the author was with Operation Migration, and saw what the cranes were doing, and how they reacted to the people. Some were anecdotes from those he interviewed in the project. He was told many stories …show more content…
Mooallem considers two different perspectives on the same issue when one of the Operation Migration worker’s states, ‘It’s not a bird project, it’s a people project. The birds are an excuse for doing something good” (278). Earlier in the text, when someone watched the cranes flying behind the planes, he exclaimed it was “utterly selfless” and that ‘it’s just about the birds. It’s not about the people doing it” (230). These are two different perspectives from different viewpoints of the project. He does not give a final saying on what is right; he leaves it to the reader to decide whether saving the cranes is just to help the people feel like they are doing something good, or are actually doing a great thing for a species that is dying