No, it's not the number left in the wild, unfortunately, but the number privately owned by Americans. David Helton looks at the weird urge to keep big cats and the ways people have of abusing them. All Antoine Yates wanted to do, he said, was create"a Garden of Eden." The fact that he didn't own any land was bound to be an obstacle, but he did have a place, a five-room apartment. He didn't own that either - he rented it from the City of New York- but in this life and in our ambitions we all make dowith what's at hand.
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