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Since then, [[espievie]]s have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates all around the world. | Since then, [[espievie]]s have proven robust migrants and flourished in many fiscal climates all around the world. | ||
===Domestication=== | ===Domestication=== | ||
The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in a famous | The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in the nineteen-sixties, in a famous collaboration between [[Calder]] and the [[Maple brothers|Godfrey and Maginot Maple]] brothers, then working in the [[George Ugland]]’s zoological menagerie in [[George Town]]. The site is occupied today by the [[Ugland House]] orphanage, which is headquarters of an industrial breeding programme for [[espievie]]s of all kinds, meaning that the continued survival of this freak of financial biology is, for the foreseeable future, assured. | ||
===Modern use=== | ===Modern use=== | ||
Most [[espievie]]s are harmless and even friendly and can be useful around the garden, mulching up tax liabilities and so on. But occasionally they turn nasty. Poor [[Andrew Fastow]] was hounded to prison by three of his own [[raptors]]. [[Herbert Fonseca]] successfully bred Panamanian tax [[espievie]]s for nearly sixty years, until an unfortunate leakage of publicity wiped out the whole population, and his laboratory, in 2016. | Most [[espievie]]s are harmless and even friendly and can be useful around the garden, mulching up tax liabilities and so on. But occasionally they turn nasty. Poor [[Andrew Fastow]] was hounded to prison by three of his own [[raptors]]. [[Herbert Fonseca]] successfully bred Panamanian tax [[espievie]]s for nearly sixty years, until an unfortunate leakage of publicity wiped out the whole population, and his laboratory, in 2016. |