Savages and Beasts
Subtitle: The Birth of the Modern Zoo (Animals, History, Culture)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: August 30, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780801869105
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Zoos & wildlife parks; 20th century; Nature/Ecology; Zoological Gardens; Science; History - General History; Zoos; Germany; Europe - General; Life Sciences - Zoology - General; History / Europe / General; Hagenback, Carl; History; Wild animal trade
First sentence: In a slim book entitled Beobachtungen uber die Psyche der Menschenaffen (Observations on the psyche of the great apes), published in 1908, the German zoologist Alexander Sokolowsky attempted to describe the psychological, intellectual, and emotional lives of gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans.