Nigel Rothfels Books
Elephant House
By Dick Blau
Traces the history of the Asian elephant display at the Oregon Zoo from the 1950s to the present. An introduction by historian Nigel Rothfels explores changes in elephant husbandry since the 1870s.
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Savages and beasts
"To modern sensibilities, nineteenth-century zoos often seem to have been unnatural places where animals led miserable lives in cramped, wrought-iron cages. Today zoo animals, in at least the bette...
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