Animal-rights activists scored four out of six, protecting horses from butchers in California and bears from baiters in Missouri, as well as ending cockfights in Missouri and Arizona.
And such programs do exist for other species, Derocher said, including California condors, black bears in Washington state and brown bears in Eastern Europe.
The indefatigable Werner Herzog has made a brilliant documentary about an American saint and fool Timothy Treadwell, a failed actor and California surfer who fell in love with the grizzly bears in Alaska and who spent a dozen summers with the bears, usually alone and always unarmed.