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Large Mammal Problem #32
Paul Richards
25 Feb 2026
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![Morag is still driving Gary and Phil to the building site to find the girls. Gary: So you made a deal with this… sinister plutocrat? Phil: Sir Everett Deverill. What were you thinking Morag? Morag: Look. I’d spent 20 years in the lab. Researching executive dysfunction in marmosets. While the planet burned. At some point you gotta stop studying the world and start saving it. I decided to rewild this valley. But it was impossible. Now we see Morag’s memory of the small print from the pact she made with Deverill, which looks like a website’s terms and conditions with an “accept” button that she has clicked perhaps too hastily. Sir Everett seems to be granting himself unusually wide-ranging powers over the Valley. Gary [pensive]: Did you ever… find a cure for the marmosets? Morag: I mean… they can try breaking big tasks down into small ones. That helps a bit. [They’ve now arrived at the building site and are getting out of the pickup in front of another surly security guard] Morag: But basically no. It’s hopeless for them.](https://large-mammal-problem.ghost.io/content/images/2026/02/lmp32-1.jpg)