A Wilder Kingdom : Rethinking Nature in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond / edited by Ben A. Minteer and Harry Greene.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Minteer, Ben A., 1969- editor.

Greene, Harry W., 1945- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zoo animals.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (280 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2023]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

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.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-55414-1

OCLC:

1391442665