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Evidence suggests that humans first domesticated animals beginning about 10,000 B.C.E., but collecting wild and exotic animals did not begin until about 3,000 B.C.E. During the next few millennia, gardens, animal collections, parks, and animal reserves...

Collecting and displaying live animals, often from exotic locales and faraway continents, has been part of human life for at least 4,500 years. Originally featured in royal or imperial parks and pleasure gardens, upon the rise of bourgeois culture such...

Throughout the Middle Ages, Europeans regarded plants and animals from a very pragmatic viewpoint. Plants were seen as sources of food, medicines, and wood. Animals were valued as food and as aids to mankind by providing power (oxen and horses) and...

As far back as the historical record goes, there is evidence of people keeping wild animals in cages. During the Middle Ages in Europe, rare and exotic animals, and occasionally even foreign natives, were displayed in traveling caravans called...

A zoological garden, zoological park or zoo is a facility in which animals are confined within enclosures, displayed to the public and in which they may also be bred. The term zoological garden refers to the biological discipline zoology, which derives...

Background The Merriam-Webster Word Central Online Student Dictionary (http://www.wordcentral.com/) defines a zoo as "a collection of living animals kept for showing to the public." This is part of what zoos do today (and mostly what zoos used to do.) They offer people...

THE VETERINARIAN APPROACHED CAUTIOUSLY AS the bongo watched warily. The vet, Lyndsay Phillips, wore jeans, sneakers, a turquoise sport shirt and a ratty brown National Zoo jacket. He was armed with a pole tipped with a needle full of anesthetic. The bongo, a...

Great, a 5-year-old male koala, has been sent to Riverbanks Zoo with one goal in mind _ make new koalas. But zoo officials say any expansion of their koala family won't happen overnight. Great takes a while to get used to his new home and...

A 350-pound Siberian tiger that mauled an experienced San Francisco Zoo keeper so badly she could lose her arm had no history of violence, prompting an investigation into what led to the vicious attack.The tiger would likely remain on view Saturday, zoo officials said, even...