A Wilder Kingdom Rethinking Nature in Zoos Wildlife Parks and Beyond 1st Edition by Ben Minteer, Harry Greene 0231554141 9780231554145

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ISBN 10: 0231554141
ISBN 13: 9780231554145
Author: Ben A. Minteer and Harry W. Greene

Zoos have always had a troubled relationship to what is considered the “real” wild. Even the most immersive and naturalistic zoos, critics maintain, are inherently contrived and inauthentic environments. Zoo animals’ diet, care, and reproduction are under pervasive human control, with natural phenomena like disease and death kept mostly hidden from public view. Furthermore, despite their growing commitment to conservation and education, zoos are entertainment providers that respond to visitors’ expectations and preferences. What would a “wilder” zoo—one that shows the public a wider range of ecological processes—look like? Is it achievable or even desirable? What roles can or should zoos play in encouraging humanity to find meaningful connections with wild animals and places? A Wilder Kingdom is a provocative and reflective examination of the relationship between zoos and the wild. It gathers a premier set of multidisciplinary voices—from animal studies and psychology to evolutionary biology and environmental journalism—to consider the possibilities and challenges of making zoos wilder. In so doing, the contributors offer new insights into the future of the wild beyond zoos and our relationship to wild species and places across the landscape in an increasingly human-dominated era.

A Wilder Kingdom Rethinking Nature in Zoos Wildlife Parks and Beyond 1st Table of contents:

1. Zoos and the Wild: A Reconsideration

2. Between Worlds: A Conversation Among the Cranes

3. Animal Art and the Changing Meanings of the Wild

4. Can Zoos Connect People with Wildness?

5. “Wild” Through an American Indian Historical Analysis

6. Toward a Wilder Kin-Dom: Why Zoos Must Focus More on Ecological Interactions (with Our Children and Other Biota) Than on Isolated Species

7. This Is a Zoo? Reflections on a Wilder Zoo by Visitors to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

8. Evolution to the Rescue: Natural Selection Can Help Captive Populations Adapt to a Changing World

9. Zoo Dogs

10. Zoo Time

11. The Microbial Zoo: How Small Is Wild?

12. A Home for the Wild: Architecture in the Zoo

13. Reconnecting Zoos to the Wild and Rethinking Dignity in Animal Conservation

14. Seeing the Wild in Zoos by Seeing the Humans Too

15. The Once and Future Rhino

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