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The World as Zoo: Acclimatization in the Nineteenth Century (2018)

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Nineteenth-century zoos shared many of the goals of their twentieth-century successors. But in addition to displaying a range of exotic animal species, many of them, including the major metropolitan zoos in London and Paris, also maintained populations of the wild relatives of such domesticates as cattle, sheep, chickens, and turkeys, in the hope of invigorating the local herds and flocks. From the mid-nineteenth-century, most such efforts were carried out by acclimatization societies, which also attempted to introduce exotic wild species and varieties of birds, mammals, and fish that were imagined to be useful or attractive. These initiatives were most effective and transformative in Australia and New Zealand.

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Authors & Contributors
Cowie, Helen
Mustafa Haikal
Larsson, Eleanor
John Simons
Clemens Maier-Wolthausen
Thomas J. Dunlap
Concepts
Animals
Domestication
Zoos
Human-animal relationships
Archaeology
Natural history
Time Periods
19th century
Ancient
Prehistory
21st century
20th century, early
20th century
Places
Middle and Near East
London (England)
Europe
Ottoman Empire
Berlin (Germany)
South Asia
Institutions
London Zoo
Zoologischer Garten Berlin
Zoological Society of London
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