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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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
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Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter ONE. Animals in the Landscape
  • Chapter TWO. Who Belongs in the Zoo?
  • Chapter THREE. The Wild Animal Trade
  • Chapter FOUR. Zoo Expeditions
  • Chapter FIVE. Natural Settings
  • Chapter SIX. Zoos Old and New
  • Notes
  • Index