Zoos: Media
Should zoos exist?
Images
Louis XVI in a 1786 portrait by Antoine-Francois Callet
Louis XVI kept a menagerie at the Palace of Versailles.
Musée Carnavalet, Histoire de Paris (P2174)
Jumbo's skeleton
Poster from P.T. Barnum & Co.'s Greatest Show on Earth showing Jumbo's skeleton on...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (LC-DIG-ppmsca-32620)
Winnie the Pooh, with Christopher Robin and Piglet.
E.H. Shepherd drew A.A. Milne's famous characters for the 1926 publication, “Winnie...
From Winnie-The-Pooh by A.A. Milne, 1926
Carl Hagenbeck (1844-1913).
Hagenbeck was a German animal dealer and trainer.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: cph 3c26747)
A reticulated giraffe.
A reticulated giraffe eats leaves in a South Florida zoo.
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