Those Troublesome Whales; in no relation to the recent outbreaks.

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For those who's solitary hunger is to become a zoo curator and eventually sell the fruit of your life's labors:


"It's a joke in the zoo business, a weary joke, that the paperwork involved in trading a shrew weighs more than an elephant, that the paperwork involved in trading an elephant weighs more than a whale, and that you must never try to trade a whale, never."

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