Chapter Ten Flying Penguins in Japan's Northernmost Zoo

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Towards a New Humanities 3
6. Psychotic Humans, Psychotic Animals: The Zoo and the Mental Hospital, 1656–1794 19
7. The Antelope Collectors 45
8. Failed Zoo Experiments: Primatology, Aeronautics, and the Animality of “Modern” Science, 1891–1903 65
9. Sculpting Dinah with the Blunt Tools of the Historian 93
10. Stereoscopic Animals: Spectatorship, Kodiak Bears, and the Keystone Animal Set 119
11. “Try Telling That to the Polar Bears”: Rationing and Resistance at the Wartime Zoo 145
12. Gust (ca 1952–1988), or a History from Below of the Changing Zoo 167
13. Child Stars at the Zoo: The Rise and Fall of Polar Bear Knut 191
14. Pandas and the Reproduction of Race and Heterosexuality in the Zoo 211
15. Flying Penguins in Japan's Northernmost Zoo 237
16. Al Gore, Blackfish, and Me: Eco-activist Progress and Prospects for the Future 262
17. Reorienting the Space of Containment, or from Zoosphere to Noösphere and Beyond 276
18. Zoomorphic Bodies: Moving and Being Moved by Animals 294
19. Bibliography 313
20. Contributors 333
21. Index 337