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Livingston, Bernard. Zoo Animals, People, Places. New York: Arbor House, 1974 Check out this book, if you can. It has my heartfelt endorsement. I picked it up at a Tacoma Library book sale last year when I was homeless and spent so much of my time there. I have read it every day over the past year. It is an inspiration. The author is a consistent advocate for the rights of animals and a tireless champion of zoos and all the challenges they face in trying to balance economics, politics, and the needs of rare and endangered species, giving a well-rounded view of zoos' history, dating back to the royal menageries of ancient times. He explains how Prezewalski's Horse was hunted to worldwide extinction, the last Survivor in the wild being killed in Europe in or around 1923. The only remaining member's of this species, which we can see on cave wall paintings, were in zoos, particularly the Bronx Zoo, which was also instrumental in saving the American Bison from extinction. At the time of the book's writing, there were plan's to reintroduce the horse into the wild in Eastern Europe. I would like to know how that went. Bernard Livingston is also a lover of my San Diego Zoological Society. Reading his book made me realize how lucky I was to be weaned on the zoos of San Diego. In addition to the story of Przewalski's Horse, he gives a detailed account of the life of "our country's sweetheart" the baby gorilla, Patty Cake, born in New York's Central Park Zoo and beloved of millions, and the original Smokey Bear, who was saved as a cub from a raging forest fire. For an inside look at life in a zoo, this book is indispensable.

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