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What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos
What's New The Zoo A Zippy History of Zoos Author:Kathleen Krull With friendly facts, funny pictures, and animals galore, WHAT'S NEW? THE ZOO! is history to roar for! — Did you know . . . — * The first zoo was established forty-three hundred years ago in present-day Iraq? — * Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them? — * Zoos were... more » crucial in the development of scientific theories of classification and evolution?
* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?
Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring jazzy style and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn.« less