Hopefully, some enterprising soul will recognize the inherent cultural and educational value of these endangered birds, and rescue them from oblivion. My graduate school economics education would have been entirely different, for example, had I (and cohorts) not been able to extract several flamingoes from their assigned task?demonstrating ‘pride of ownership’ for insurance purposes on the front lawn at one professor’s run-down home?to arrange them artfully on the front lawn of another professor’s upscale property (to early morning horror of he and his neighbors). The economic lesson in this adventure? Value is subjective. Yes, it certainly is.