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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
William Bridges |
ISBN: | 0060104724 9780060104726 |
OCLC Number: | 900980 |
Description: | viii, 518 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | It began with the Boone and Crockett Club -- Enter William Temple Hornaday -- Hard sledding in City Hall -- Ground-breaking began at seven o'clock in the morning -- The final step: getting a staff and animals -- Opening day: November 8, 1899 -- Check your camera at the gate -- Disaster in the ape collection -- The Society takes over the Aquarium -- Autocrat vs. autocrat -- Live times at the Aquarium -- Man in the Zoo -- Good elephants--and Gunda -- The American Bison Society is formed -- Battles for wildlife, the Bronx River Parkway, and the giant redwoods -- William Beebe charts a new course -- Heads, horns, and the chimpanzee that knows everything -- Keeping the animals well -- The Zoological Park is investigated -- Gorillas and other great rarities -- Doctor Hornaday adopts a world war -- Postwar years and the great cobra mystery -- New faces, new ways at the Zoo -- The Townsend era comes to an end at the Aquarium -- Fairfield Osborn breaks the old patterns -- The Zoological Society's role expands -- A future without limits. |
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