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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 the nineteen-sixties, in a famous collaboration between [[Calder]] and | The [[espievie]] was first bred in captivity in the nineteen-sixties, in a famous collaboration between [[Calder]] and [[Maple brothers|Godfrey and Maginot Maple]]. At the time, [[Calder]] was general manager of the children’s orphanage founded by [[George Ugland]], and the Maple brothers ran [[George Town]]’s zoological menagerie. | ||
The site of their collaboration is occupied today by [[Ugland House]] 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. | ||