Peter Brazaitis

You Belong in a Zoo! (eBook, ePUB)

Tales from a Lifetime Spent with Cobras, Crocs, and Other Extraordinary Creature s

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

From catching alligators in the reservoirs of New York and capturing giant crocodiles in Venezuela and giant frogs in West Africa to finding mummified human heads in a Bronx apartment, eels on a bus, cobras on the loose, and crocodiles that make change—a memoir of one man's career working with exotic reptiles and other animals. After the teenage Peter Brazaitis brought home one creepy crawly creature too many, his stepmother declared, "You are an animal, and you belong in a zoo!” He took her at her word. He went directly from high school in Brooklyn to a job at the Reptile House at the Bronx Zoo, where he stayed for more than thirty years, eventually becoming superintendent of reptiles. He later became curator of the Central Park Zoo, and continues to work with law enforcement as a forensic specialist in the fight to stop illegal importation and slaughter of reptiles for the luxury exotic-leather industry. (His effectiveness at this would earn him the moniker "The Bald-Headed Snake Keeper in the Bronx.”) You Belong in a Zoo! presents the amazing experiences Brazaitis has had in more than four decades of working with wild animals. Enlightening, funny, and often outrageous, You Belong in a Zoo! is a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at zoos, animal people, and some of nature's most extraordinary creatures.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307417824
• Artikelnr.: 39248384

Autorenporträt

Peter Brazaitis was born in Brooklyn and went to work at the Bronx Zoo directly out of high school in 1954. He remained there for more than 30 years and eventually became head snake keeper. Brazaitis was named curator of New York's Central Park Zoo when it reopened in 1988. Now retired, he lives with his wife, an animal behaviorist, in Harwinton, Connecticut.