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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
^That. And if extinction wasn't the goal, then even later: A most famous youth adventure series in Poland (not having a series title but usually referred to as "The Adventures of Tommy Wilmowski") depicts the life - from teenage to adulthood - of a boy whose father, a fugitive after the Kościuszko uprising, hunts living animals for Hagenbeck's zoo. The stories are choke-full with infodumps on local flora, fauna and culture of native inhabitants of the regions visited (what we call edutainment nowadays), always pro natives, as the Polish fugitives felt compassion with those being driven from or attacked at their home soil.
I grew up with that stuff.
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Even more recently, there's a very, very famous British naturalist called David Attenborough, who presents nature programmes on BBC TV. He made his name in the 1950s and 60s as the presenter of an extremely popular TV series called
Zoo Quest, in which he accompanied expeditions all over the world to capture live animals for London Zoo, which was an entirely accepted practice at the time. These days the idea of a zoo capturing large animals from the wild would be regarded with horror.