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Los Angeles Is a Wildlife Habitat With Homes In It. Enjoy the Animals, But Don’t Invite Them to Dinner.
On a breezy evening in downtown’s Grand Park, near patches of green flanked by high rises and concrete, Los Angeles didn’t feel all that wild. But, as Zócalo associate editor and Zoobiquity co-author Kathryn Bowers reminded an audience there, they were sitting just five or six miles away from Griffith Park, America’s largest municipal park, and not too far from mountain ranges, the ocean, countless canyons, and a river. “Some scientists,” she said, “have called Los Angeles a ‘biodiversity hot spot.’” In opening the conversation—“Does L.A. Appreciate Its Wild Animals?”—panelists …
