Animal Attractions : : Nature on Display in American Zoos /

Animal Attractions : : Nature on Display in American Zoos / / Elizabeth Hanson.

On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped c...

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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t ACKOWLEDGMENTS --   |t INTRODUCTION --   |t Chapter ONE. Animals in the Landscape --   |t Chapter TWO. Who Belongs in the Zoo? --   |t Chapter THREE. The Wild Animal Trade --   |t Chapter FOUR. Zoo Expeditions --   |t Chapter FIVE. Natural Settings --   |t Chapter SIX. Zoos Old and New --   |t Notes --   |t Index 
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520 |a On a rainy day in May 1988, a lowland gorilla named Willie B. stepped outdoors for the first time in twenty-seven years, into a new landscape immersion exhibit. Born in Africa, Willie B. had been captured by an animal collector and sold to a zoo. During the decades he spent in a cage, zoos stopped collecting animals from the wild and Americans changed the ways they wished to view animals in the zoo. Zoos developed new displays to simulate landscapes like the Amazon River basin and African forests. Exhibits similar to animals' natural habitats began to replace old-fashioned animal houses. But such displays are only the most recent effort of zoos to present their audiences with an authentic experience of nature. Since the first zoological park opened in the United States in Philadelphia in 1874, zoos have promised their visitors a journey into the natural world. And for more than a century they have been popular places for education and recreation: every year more than 130 million Americans go to zoos to look at the animals and enjoy a day outdoors. The first book-length history of American zoos, Animal Attractions examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections. Situated literally and culturally in the American middle landscape, zoos are concrete expressions of longstanding tensions between wildness and civilization, science and popular culture, education and entertainment. In their efforts to promote nature appreciation, they reveal much about how our culture envisions the natural world and the human place in it and how these ideas have changed. 
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650 0 |a Zoos  |z United States  |x History. 
650 7 |a SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects.  |2 bisacsh 
653 |a Albert Bierstadt. 
653 |a All in a Lifetime. 
653 |a American Museum of Natural History. 
653 |a American bison. 
653 |a Andrew Jackson Downing. 
653 |a Animal Health. 
653 |a Animal Park. 
653 |a Animal rights movement. 
653 |a Animal rights. 
653 |a Animal shelter. 
653 |a Animal welfare science. 
653 |a Animal welfare. 
653 |a Antwerp Zoo. 
653 |a Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. 
653 |a Baynard Kendrick. 
653 |a Benson's Wild Animal Farm. 
653 |a Big-game hunting. 
653 |a Bird nest. 
653 |a Boone and Crockett Club. 
653 |a Bronx Zoo. 
653 |a Brookfield Zoo. 
653 |a Captive breeding. 
653 |a Carl Akeley. 
653 |a Carl Hagenbeck. 
653 |a Cat. 
653 |a Chimpanzee. 
653 |a Dallas Zoo. 
653 |a Daniel Beard. 
653 |a Desmond Morris. 
653 |a Detroit Zoo. 
653 |a Diorama. 
653 |a Edmund Heller. 
653 |a Ernest Thompson Seton. 
653 |a Ethology. 
653 |a Frank Buck (animal collector). 
653 |a Franklin Park Zoo. 
653 |a George Eastman. 
653 |a Giant panda. 
653 |a Golden lion tamarin. 
653 |a Heini Hediger. 
653 |a Hoop snake. 
653 |a Immersion exhibit. 
653 |a Inbreeding. 
653 |a Indian leopard. 
653 |a Island Press. 
653 |a Jules Verreaux. 
653 |a Liberia. 
653 |a Lincoln Park Zoo. 
653 |a London Zoo. 
653 |a Louse. 
653 |a Madison Grant. 
653 |a Mahout. 
653 |a Mange. 
653 |a Menagerie. 
653 |a Milwaukee County Zoo. 
653 |a Monitor lizard. 
653 |a Museum of Comparative Zoology. 
653 |a Museum. 
653 |a National Geographic Society. 
653 |a National Zoological Park (United States). 
653 |a Natural history. 
653 |a Nature study. 
653 |a Newspaper. 
653 |a Nobel Prize. 
653 |a Ornithology. 
653 |a Ota Benga. 
653 |a P. T. Barnum. 
653 |a Paola Cavalieri. 
653 |a Park. 
653 |a Petting zoo. 
653 |a Philadelphia Zoo. 
653 |a Prairie dog. 
653 |a Recreation. 
653 |a Rhesus macaque. 
653 |a Ringling brothers. 
653 |a Safari park. 
653 |a San Diego Zoo. 
653 |a Skunk. 
653 |a Smithsonian Institution. 
653 |a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 
653 |a Species Survival Plan. 
653 |a Striped hyena. 
653 |a Suburb. 
653 |a Sun bear. 
653 |a Tapir. 
653 |a Taxidermy. 
653 |a The Machine in the Garden. 
653 |a Trophy hunting. 
653 |a V. 
653 |a Vivisection. 
653 |a Washington Park Zoo. 
653 |a Wildlife Conservation Society. 
653 |a William Beebe. 
653 |a William Morton Wheeler. 
653 |a Willie B. 
653 |a Works Progress Administration. 
653 |a Zoo. 
653 |a Zookeeper. 
653 |a Zoological Society of London. 
653 |a Zoology. 
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