The red-legged seriemas were flipping out as I walked into the bird house in the St. Louis Zoo today. I don’t know if they were protesting systemic injustice, or the fairness of their own incarceration or if they had been watching CNN or Fox News, but they were upset and making their displeasure known. The noise they were making was worse than a frat party and a lot more shrill. I stood for a minute and watched, then did what I always do to calm situations down;