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     COMMENTS: A Big Cat Person

It is a tradition of animal features to find the conservation zoologist who so identifies with the species he is trying to protect that he lives like one of them. Meet Kevin Richardson, ABC's Person of the Week, who "sometimes behaves like a pussy cat, other times king of the jungle." Jim Sciutto traveled to a game reserve near Johannesburg to monitor the plight of the African lion: "Hunting and shrinking habitat have reduced the lion population from around 200,000 in the 80s to just 16,000 today." Richardson, Sciutto promised, has a documentary in the works to publicize his cats' cause.

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