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Entries Tagged as 'Animals in Captivity'

One Kingdom: Our Lives with Animals

May 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN Deborah Noyes is a wonderfully attentive and insightful author and photographer. Melding these two strengths into One Kingdom, she has summarized our oftentimes quirky, odd, abusive, symbiotic, and vastly interesting history living with animals through poetic and quizzical reflections. Her powerful black and white portraits bring to life the animal [...]

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Saving the Baghdad Zoo: A True Story of Hope and Heroes

April 27th, 2011 · No Comments · Books

Review By CAROLYN M. MULLIN All too often in human conflict and warfare, animals also suffer although their struggle for survival tends to be put on the backburner. The case was no different during America’s Iraq invasion. The U.S. Army eventually made it into the Baghdad Zoo and the royal palaces where wild animals had [...]

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The Snake Who Was Afraid of People

December 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JENNIFER GANNETT Barry Louis Polisar’s The Snake Who Was Afraid of People is the tale of a young snake named Leo, who is afraid of people —  a fear stemming from his observations of how humans treat the natural world, including snakes. This fear of people leads other snakes to make fun of [...]

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Peter and the Pigeons

November 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Books

Review By JESSICA ALMY Children’s literature is notoriously easy on the zoo industry. Zoos are depicted as places that animals want to be — with little mention of whether it’s natural for elephants to stand on concrete, or whether lions should really be pacing in their enclosures. So when a kids book is even a [...]

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