Savages and beasts : the birth of the modern zoo /
"To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to have been unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the better zoos, wander in open spaces that resemble natural habitats and are enclosed, not by bars, but by...
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Language: | English |
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Baltimore, Md. :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2002
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Series: | Animals, history, culture.
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Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |