In a recent post I explained my reasons for opposing the captive breeding of the gravely endangered California condor; and, by extension, my reasons for opposing the imprisonment of any endangered creature whose life in the wild cannot reasonably be duplicated in captivity. “And so, to the obvious,” I concluded: If California condors are not bred in captivity, the species may in some dark future year go extinct, to be remembered by those of us who are alive today and by our d