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Explores the secrets of the most famous National Parks of Australia's Red Centre. It will tell you about the area's pre-history and origins, its geology and landforms, its plants and animals and how they live. This book also unlocks the door on its human history, especially of the Aboriginal people whose culture is so much a part of it.

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A history of American zoos, this work examines the meaning of nature in the city by looking at the ways zoos have assembled and displayed their animal collections.

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With the animals and some humans dictating the anecdotes, this volume highlights a quarter of a century of behind-the-scenes life at Taronga Zoo in Sydney and Western Plains Zoo in Dubbo. It presents the facts and life lessons that zoo animals provide for visiting children.

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Original works by artists and writers celebrating Yellowstone's diverse flora and fauna

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Chronicles the Baghdad zoo's transformation from bombed-out rubble to peaceful park. This title recounts hair-raising efforts to save a pride of the dictator's lions, close a deplorable black-market zoo, and rescue Saddam's Arabian horses.

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A biography of the naturalist and conservationist Gerald Durrell, who died aged 70 in January 1995 in Jersey, where he founded the zoo he'd dreamed of as a small boy and pioneered the captive breeding of animals for conservation.

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Wild animals have fascinated human observers since time immemorial. The story of our interest in collecting, classifying and dominating Nature looms large; thus it is surprising that the history of menageries, zoological gardens and zoos as we know them has been so poorly documented. This addresses this gap.