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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Main Author: Rothfels, Nigel
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
Series:Animals, history, culture.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central