Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors

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Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors
Columbia University Press | September 30, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0231132484 | 320 pages | 4 Mb

Since the early days of traveling menageries and staged attractions
that included animal acts, balloon ascents, and pyrotechnic displays,
zoos have come a long way. The Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes in
Paris, founded in 1793, didn't offer its great apes lessons in
parenting or perform dental surgery on leopards. Certainly the
introduction of veterinary care in the nineteenth century -- and its
gradual integration into the twentieth -- has had much to do with this.
Today, we expect more of zoos as animal welfare concerns have escalated
along with steady advances in science, medicine, and technology. Life
at the Zoo is an eminent zoo veterinarian's personal account of the
challenges presented by the evolution of zoos and the expectations of
their visitors. Based on fifteen years of work at the world-famous San
Diego Zoo, this charming book reveals the hazards and rewards of
running a modern zoo.

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