The new York time recently released details of a story from 1922 involving zebra finches. The stroy begins in New York in 1922 where a new tradelaw had meant that there was a new import tax for many goods and services. Unfortunately enroute already were 300 zebra finches from Australia. The owner had decided that it was too much to pay so was about to let them loose rather than pay the duty. This would undoubtedly lead many of them to death as they would have died in the harbours of New York or in the rooftops of the Bronx. Fortunately the brave owners of the Bronx Zoological gardens came to the rescue of these poor birds and gave them all a home where they flourished and were kept alive for generations.