(I like that title.)
From 538 Significant Digits, and please pay attention to the specific list of animals now banned from American Airlines flights. Because…they’re service animals? Oh, you know what I’m going to do? Bold the ones that particularly intrigue me, as I sit around thinking…emotional support?
40 percent
American Airlines is taking a page out of The Book of Leviticus and issuing a list of banned service and emotional support animals that cannot be brought aboard flights starting July 1. This list includes amphibians, ferrets, goats, hedgehogs, insects, reptiles, rodents, snakes, spiders, sugar gliders (would love to know the story behind how this animal earned an extremely specific mention), poultry, waterfowl, birds of prey, all animals with tusks, horns or hooves* (with the exception of the noble miniature horse), and any animal that smells bad. The policy is due to a 40 percent rise in the number of people transporting a service or support animal between 2016 and 2017. [CBS Dallas, American Airlines]
* Now this group begins to sound, like, a discussion a bunch of us recently had re what animal meats are or aren’t kosher.