7. This Is a Zoo? Reflections on a Wilder Zoo by Visitors to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. 1. Zoos and the Wild: A Reconsideration 1
4. 2. Between Worlds: A Conversation Among the Cranes 31
5. 3. Animal Art and the Changing Meanings of the Wild 47
6. 4. Can Zoos Connect People with Wildness? 63
7. 5. “Wild” Through an American Indian Historical Analysis 77
8. 6. Toward a Wilder Kin-Dom: Why Zoos Must Focus More on Ecological Interactions (with Our Children and Other Biota) Than on Isolated Species 93
9. 7. This Is a Zoo? Reflections on a Wilder Zoo by Visitors to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum 107
10. 8. Evolution to the Rescue: Natural Selection Can Help Captive Populations Adapt to a Changing World 125
11. 9. Zoo Dogs 139
12. 10. Zoo Time 155
13. 11. The Microbial Zoo: How Small Is Wild? 169
14. 12. A Home for the Wild: Architecture in the Zoo 183
15. 13. Reconnecting Zoos to the Wild and Rethinking Dignity in Animal Conservation 197
16. 14. Seeing the Wild in Zoos by Seeing the Humans Too 213
17. 15. The Once and Future Rhino 229
18. Postscript: On Wildness and Responsibility 241
19. Acknowledgments 247
20. List of Contributors 249
21. Index 255