This book is a provocative and reflective examination of the relationship between zoos and the wild. It gathers a premier set of multidisciplinary voices to consider the possibilities and challenges of making zoos wilder.
This book is a provocative and reflective examination of the relationship between zoos and the wild. It gathers a premier set of multidisciplinary voices to consider the possibilities and challenges of making zoos wilder.
Ben A. Minteer is professor of environmental ethics and conservation in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. His many books include Wild Visions: Wilderness as Image and Idea (2022); The Fall of the Wild: Extinction, De-Extinction, and the Ethics of Conservation (Columbia, 2018); and The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation (2018). Harry W. Greene is emeritus professor at Cornell University and adjunct professor at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the author of Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature (1997) and Tracks and Shadows: Field Biology as Art (2013).
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1. Zoos and the Wild: A Reconsideration, by Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene 2. Between Worlds: A Conversation Among the Cranes, by Curt Meine 3. Animal Art and the Changing Meanings of the Wild, by Alison Hawthorne Deming 4. Can Zoos Connect People with Wildness?, by Susan Clayton 5. "Wild" Through an American Indian Historical Analysis, by Kelsey Dayle John and Reva Mariah ShieldChief 6. Toward a Wilder Kin-Dom: Why Zoos Must Focus More on Ecological Interactions (with Our Children and Other Biota) Than on Isolated Species, by Gary Paul Nabhan 7. This Is a Zoo? Reflections on a Wilder Zoo by Visitors to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, by Debra Colodner, Craig Ivanyi, and Cassandra Lyon 8. Evolution to the Rescue: Natural Selection Can Help Captive Populations Adapt to a Changing World, by Jonathan B. Losos 9. Zoo Dogs, by Clive D. L. Wynne and Holly G. Molinaro 10. Zoo Time, by Nigel Rothfels 11. The Microbial Zoo: How Small Is Wild?, by Irus Braverman 12. A Home for the Wild: Architecture in the Zoo, by Natascha Meuser 13. Reconnecting Zoos to the Wild and Rethinking Dignity in Animal Conservation, by Joseph R. Mendelson III 14. Seeing the Wild in Zoos by Seeing the Humans Too, by Amanda Stronza 15. The Once and Future Rhino, by Michelle Nijhuis Postscript: On Wildness and Responsibility, by Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
1. Zoos and the Wild: A Reconsideration, by Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene 2. Between Worlds: A Conversation Among the Cranes, by Curt Meine 3. Animal Art and the Changing Meanings of the Wild, by Alison Hawthorne Deming 4. Can Zoos Connect People with Wildness?, by Susan Clayton 5. "Wild" Through an American Indian Historical Analysis, by Kelsey Dayle John and Reva Mariah ShieldChief 6. Toward a Wilder Kin-Dom: Why Zoos Must Focus More on Ecological Interactions (with Our Children and Other Biota) Than on Isolated Species, by Gary Paul Nabhan 7. This Is a Zoo? Reflections on a Wilder Zoo by Visitors to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, by Debra Colodner, Craig Ivanyi, and Cassandra Lyon 8. Evolution to the Rescue: Natural Selection Can Help Captive Populations Adapt to a Changing World, by Jonathan B. Losos 9. Zoo Dogs, by Clive D. L. Wynne and Holly G. Molinaro 10. Zoo Time, by Nigel Rothfels 11. The Microbial Zoo: How Small Is Wild?, by Irus Braverman 12. A Home for the Wild: Architecture in the Zoo, by Natascha Meuser 13. Reconnecting Zoos to the Wild and Rethinking Dignity in Animal Conservation, by Joseph R. Mendelson III 14. Seeing the Wild in Zoos by Seeing the Humans Too, by Amanda Stronza 15. The Once and Future Rhino, by Michelle Nijhuis Postscript: On Wildness and Responsibility, by Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene Acknowledgments List of Contributors Index
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