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" Zoos and animal rights : "
Stephen St. C. Bostock.
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625050
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| Main Entry
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Bostock, Stephen St. C.,1940-
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Zoos and animal rights : : the ethics of keeping animals /\ Stephen St. C. Bostock.
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London ;New York :: Routledge,, 1993.
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xi, 227 p. ;; 23 cm.
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041505057X
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: 9780415050579
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: 0415050588
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: 9780415050586
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: 9780203408810
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: 0203408810
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 198-213) and indexes.
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| Contents
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4,500 years of zoos and animal keeping -- Egypt -- Mesopotamia -- Greece -- Rome -- Ancient China -- Medieval Europe -- Medieval China -- British deerparks -- Late middle ages and renaissance times -- Mexico -- European zoos 1500-1800 -- Menageries -- London Zoo in the nineteenth century -- Carl Hagenbeck -- Woburn -- Other twentieth-century developments -- Animals and their rights -- Animals themselves -- Animal rights -- Animals' right to freedom -- Wildness, cruelty and domination -- Wildness -- Do zoos keep wild animals? -- Cruelty -- Domination -- Wild living versus zoo living -- Length of life and violent death -- Are zoo animals healthier than wild animals? -- Food, pleasure and purpose -- Evolution and adaptation -- Judging well-being -- Health -- Breeding -- Natural behaviour -- Abnormal behaviour -- Direct indications -- Theoretical assessment -- Keeping and display of animals -- Six ways of keeping animals -- Aesthetics and purpose of zoo design -- Aesthetic of the naturalistic -- Is it captivity?
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(cont) Why conservation is a moral matter -- Caring for objects -- Different ways of conserving -- Vandalism -- Animals as natural works of art -- Animals as animals -- Why animals merit double respect -- Zoos and conservation -- Conservational captive breeding -- Breeding technology -- Culling -- Reintroduction -- Species selection, valuing and finance -- Supplementary conservational roles -- Science in zoos -- Taxonomy -- General observation and investigation -- Veterinary study -- Genetics -- Behaviour -- Source for anatomical material -- Milieu for scientific activities -- On zoos not being scientific -- Usefulness of science in zoos -- Education in zoos -- Why keep real animals? -- Involvement with animals -- On zoological and other gardens -- On real plants and animals -- Communities or prisons? -- Taking animals from the wild.
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Zoo animals.
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Zoos-- Philosophy.
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Animal welfare.
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Animal rights.
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Animal Rights.
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Animal Welfare.
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Animals, Zoo.
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Ethics.
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QL77.5.B67 1993
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