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Subject(s)

• Zoo animals [Browse]
• Zoos—Philosophy [Browse]
• Animal welfare [Browse]
• Animal rights [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and indexes.

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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• 4,500 years of zoos and animal keeping
• Egypt
• Mesopotamia
• Greece
• Rome
• Ancient China
• Medieval Europe
• Medieval China
• British deerparks
• Late middle ages and renaissance times
• Mexico
• European zoos 1500-1800
• Menageries
• London Zoo in the nineteenth century
• Carl Hagenbeck
• Woburn
• Other twentieth-century developments
• Animals and their rights
• Animals themselves
• Animal rights
• Animals' right to freedom
• Wildness, cruelty and domination
• Wildness
• Do zoos keep wild animals?
• Cruelty
• Domination
• Wild living versus zoo living
• Length of life and violent death
• Are zoo animals healthier than wild animals?
• Food, pleasure and purpose
• Evolution and adaptation
• Judging well-being
• Health
• Breeding
• Natural behaviour
• Abnormal behaviour
• Direct indications
• Theoretical assessment
• Keeping and display of animals
• Six ways of keeping animals
• Aesthetics and purpose of zoo design
• Aesthetic of the naturalistic
• Is it captivity?
• (cont) Why conservation is a moral matter
• Caring for objects
• Different ways of conserving
• Vandalism
• Animals as natural works of art
• Animals as animals
• Why animals merit double respect
• Zoos and conservation
• Conservational captive breeding
• Breeding technology
• Culling
• Reintroduction
• Species selection, valuing and finance
• Supplementary conservational roles
• Science in zoos
• Taxonomy
• General observation and investigation
• Veterinary study
• Genetics
• Behaviour
• Source for anatomical material
• Milieu for scientific activities
• On zoos not being scientific
• Usefulness of science in zoos
• Education in zoos
• Why keep real animals?
• Involvement with animals
• On zoological and other gardens
• On real plants and animals
• Communities or prisons?
• Taking animals from the wild.

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ISBN

• 041505057X
• 0415050588

LCCN

^^^92035167^

OCLC

26852637

RCP

H - S

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