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When there is one somewhere else it is described as an escape. That puts it back inside the zoo explanation even while it is outside the zoo.

No report and no animal are not the same observation. But I agree that a map of reported sightings would be more useful than repeating “Africa”.

And put ticketed places on that map differently. It is still a claim about where somebody was allowed to look.

Are we counting places without them, or places nobody here has checked? Those are not the same list.

I would take an old street picture more seriously than another animal portrait commissioned to show an animal.

There are photographs after batteries. That is the part I keep coming back to.

An old photograph can also have been commissioned. You need the history of the picture, not just a year in the filename.

You have put a quantity in the argument without measuring it. “A few branches” in one photograph is not the total food available.

The preceding habitat argument matters here. This paragraph takes that objection as established; it does not start by proving it again.

Why would an anti-climate group pick this animal? Would a small animal living on very little make the same point with less to explain?

The fold is clearer in the full photograph. The edge turns under his hand.

I thought the covering was hanging from his shoulder when I first saw it.

Save the whole picture, not just that section. The man is standing on a platform.

There is another jump here. A neck being capable of a movement and an animal using that movement to hide are separate claims. Which one is the alleged omission?

I am not conceding the ostrich premise yet. The picture and the sentence are being treated as though they establish the same thing.

The animal-rights part explains the provocation. If the opponents go after the animal to make a point, they have let the other party choose what the point is about.

What I want to know is whether the vote is supposed to disappear because the person is absent, or because the hunt has become the whole political argument. We are still giving two explanations for one “instead”.

I would still need numbers before accepting the electoral result. How many people have to choose the hunt, and where are their votes being lost?

It would not need to record everything. Knowing who stops and who comes back could be useful on its own.

Tall enough to look at us over whatever fence they put around it.

A high place where equipment could fit is not evidence that equipment is there.

The original page never says which direction the pull is supposed to be. It would help to draw it.

If it has to spread its legs to get water, I do not see why we assume it has no balance problem when it is standing.

Their problem is using gravity to explain it. The ground does not need to pull anything for an object to stay on it.

Was there an image on the old page showing where they put the weight? I remember something beside this and cannot find the same copy.

If the earth is not flat, the flat-earth part of this is not a problem a giraffe has to solve.

A sign with a scientific name makes people stop asking who chose the picture.

I have definitely used a label as reassurance before looking at the thing below it. I do it in museums as well.

There is still a step between trusting a label and proving fabrication. I would rather see that step discussed than another list of imaginary animals.

People put the unicorn on things with a straight face. I don’t understand why this part bothers you more than that.

The neck is the convenient feature every explanation gets to use. It is apparently wrong to infer too much from it until the next explanation needs a very clear example.

Rejecting a theory does not erase the things it tried to explain. An observation can remain useful even if the account attached to it was wrong.

The original goes further than the diagram question: it calls the observations alleged. If you defend that sentence, the question is what was observed, not merely how well it was drawn.

Being a useful illustration does not make it an invented animal. Otherwise every very recognizable shape becomes suspicious.

The Professor introduction says the facts were permitted only as satire. That is their claim about the recording, not a caption I added.

I was looking for the Anonymous message, so the separate links help. The screenshots all seem to start halfway through.

A joke made in a video does not prove that the people presenting it elsewhere believe it.

This is close to what I meant in the state discussion. The argument begins when the institution gets to decide which question counts as reasonable.

I came back to this because the other threads keep treating the zoo as a neutral place to check the claim. That is the assumption being argued over here. Sending someone back to the enclosure does not answer it.

Commercial income and conservation are not necessarily incompatible. You have not established a contradiction just by putting the two descriptions next to each other.

A display selling tickets is not enough to establish a fabricated animal. That is the step I do not find in the financial argument.

Does Voss get a cut of the tickets or is that a separate conspiracy

The Professor introduction says the facts were permitted only as satire. That is their claim about the recording, not a caption I added.

I was looking for the Anonymous message, so the separate links help. The screenshots all seem to start halfway through.

A joke made in a video does not prove that the people presenting it elsewhere believe it.

Most of the replies still argue about how much it eats.

I don’t agree with its conclusion. But I know exactly the crowd it means.

The sample still loads even though the book listing says sold out.