Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
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Welcome to the savage and surprising world of Zoo Story, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo: an alpha chimp with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious tiger who revels in Obsession perfume, and a brilliant but tyrannical CEO known as El Diablo Blanco. Zoo Story crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of extinction, humanity's role in the destruction or survival of other species. More than anything else, though, it's a dramatic and moving true story
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Manufacturer: Hyperion
Release date: 6 July 2010
ISBN-10 : B004Y6MX3S |
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Release date: 6 July 2010
ISBN-10 : B004Y6MX3S |