4. Life Lessons: The Zoo as a Classroom

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction. The World in a Zoo 1
4. 1. Where the Wild Things Aren’t: Exhibiting Nature in American Zoos 16
5. 2. Animal Farm: Making Meaning at the Zoo 43
6. 3. Birds of a Feather: Zookeepers and the Call of the Wild 79
7. 4. Life Lessons: The Zoo as a Classroom 104
8. 5. Bring on the Dancing Horses: American Zoos in the Entertainment Age 141
9. 6. Simply Nature: Zoos and the Branding of Conservation 179
10. 7. Wrestling with Armadillos: Animal Welfare and the Captivity Question 213
11. 8. The Urban Jungle: The Future of the American Zoo 258
12. Acknowledgments 269
13. Notes 273
14. Index 315