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It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.

Alan Bennett

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Alan Bennett
Age: 90
Born: 1934
Born: May 9
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