The animal game searching for wildness at the American zoo
Over the twentieth century, as wild, tropical animals became familiar attractions in urban American zoos, they became rare in the wild. Americans who made zoos the nation's most popular attractions, developed closer knowledge of tropical animals, especially those from regions colonized by Ameri...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press
[2016]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40545842*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: The zoo parade
- The elephant's skin: animals and their visitors
- The voyage of the Silverash: the big business of tropical animals
- Jungleland: the money in wildlife
- The monkeys' island: the New Deal builds a modern zoo
- Aping: African animals on zoo stages
- Don't feed the keepers: the labor and care of zookeepers
- The zoo man's holiday: adventuring for the zoo
- My animal babies: caring for endangered species
- Dangerous safari: conservation at the end of empire
- Conclusion: Searching for the yeti.
