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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  Monday, August 19, 2013 — 2:53 pm

  I wonder why people are watching puppies instead of playing with them. Maybe the two activities aren't mutually exclusive, but maybe they are. Most (not necessarily all) animal shows I see on tv remind me of variations on the theme of David Letterman ...
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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  Monday, August 19, 2013 — 2:58 pm

  I, too, am part of this self-selecting audience, but still: It is VERY hard for me to imagine that anyone who saw Blackfish could ever again go to SeaWorld. Or, really, to any aquarium or zoo: the lies and manipulations discussed in this film are universa ...
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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  Monday, August 19, 2013 — 9:15 pm

  Yes, I think a number of people (kids and grown-ups) who go to the zoo or the circus see disturbing things, and think about them, and act on those thoughts, and then we grow some new animal rights activists-- good outcome. And sometimes the discomforts re ...
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  Randy Malamud Georgia State University

  Saturday, August 24, 2013 — 6:02 pm

  Hi Sarah-- great question... and one I've spent a long time grappling with. About 15 years ago I wrote a book about zoos (called Reading Zoos) and while I was working on it, everyone assumed I was hanging around zoos and doing ethnography. I had no d ...