Victorian efforts to export animals to new worlds failed, mostly
- Written by Harriet Ritvo, Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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In 1890, a New York bird enthusiast released several dozen starlings in Central Park. No one knows for sure why Eugene Schieffelin set the birds aloft, but he may have been motivated by a sentimental desire to make the American Northeast more like the English...
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