Author : Kathleen Krull
Release : 2014-06-24
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 786/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos by : Kathleen Krull
Download or read book What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos written by Kathleen Krull. This book was released on 2014-06-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 what is now Iraq?* Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them?* Children across Great Britain wrote to Queen Victoria when Jumbo the elephant was sold away from the London Zoo?* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?* Zoos now play a crucial role in animal conservation?Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring witty insight, jazzy style, and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn.