But our world is changing in ways we’ve never seen it change before, and we may need to stretch our ideas of wildlife conservation in ways that seem risky, even reckless, if we want to save animals like the Johnny rooks. Since we’re the ones destroying their homes, it seems only fair to see if we could learn to live together, and when you consider all their lineage has accomplished, from the wasp-eating tropical red-throats to the rock-turning alkamaris of the high desert, it seems unlikely that the challenges of our cities would be beyond them.
