New Zoo Books

Raised by the Zoo: My Life with Elephants and Other Animals (Gerry Creighton, 2023) is due out in September. Creighton was operations manager and elephant keeper at Dublin Zoo for 36 years and he is well-regarded as an expert with both elephants and modern conservation efforts. He began working at Dublin Zoo when he was 15 years old and recently left to become a public speaker and zoo consultant.

Dublin Zoo has become one of the premier zoological institutions in the world when it comes to publishing. I count two history books, one horticulture book, one Alan Roocroft elephant husbandry book and now a Gerry Creighton biography...with all 5 publications having been released since 2010.

Gill Books:

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A Wilder Kingdom: Rethinking Nature in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond (Minter & Greene, 2023) is out this month and here is the U.S. Amazon link:

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There is a chapter called "Wild Through an American Indian Historical Analysis", which seems intriguing, and also a chapter on the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Another chapter called "Architecture in the Zoo" (by Natascha Meuser, who has written two books about zoos) sounds promising, but I'll wait for another zoo nerd to purchase and review the book first.

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Tim Jones's book came out earlier this month. Zoo Man "has over 100 short, snappy stories, filled with every emotion from hysteria to terror, about what goes on behind the scenes at zoos." Jones has been the Zoo Director / Director Emeritus at Cameron Park Zoo for many years and comes from a herp background. Previous zoos include Houston, Forth Worth, and Ellen Trout. It retails for $40.

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snowleopard said:
A Wilder Kingdom: Rethinking Nature in Zoos, Wildlife Parks, and Beyond (Minter & Greene, 2023) is out this month and here is the U.S. Amazon link:

Amazon.com

There is a chapter called "Wild Through an American Indian Historical Analysis", which seems intriguing, and also a chapter on the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum. Another chapter called "Architecture in the Zoo" (by Natascha Meuser, who has written two books about zoos) sounds promising, but I'll wait for another zoo nerd to purchase and review the book first.

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This book looks great! You can also buy it from the website of Columbia University Press or Barnes and Noble. I love books that discuss zoo ethics, zoo history, and how zoos can do better without being blindly in favor of or blindly against zoos, so I’ll have to get my hands on this. The editors of this book contributed to The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation, a thought-provoking book that I really enjoyed
 
 
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Zoo Studies: Living Collections, Their Animals and Visitors (Rees, 2023) was recently published by Cambridge University Press and it details research conducted "at around 200 institutions". The book is 450 pages and rather expensive, as can be seen on this Amazon link:

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Rees has another new book coming out at the end of the month, Students' Dictionary of Zoo and Aquarium Studies, published by CABI. A description from the publisher:
"...contains over 5,000 terms (illustrated by 88 figures) used in zoos, aquariums, safari parks, birds of prey centres, petting zoos, animal rescue centres and other facilities that make up the 'zoo industry'. It covers a wide range of topics including animal behaviour, animal husbandry, animal welfare, ecology, law, taxonomy, classification, nutrition, parasitology, physiology, reproduction, experimental design, statistics, veterinary science, disease, visitor studies, water management, wildlife conservation and zoo design and architecture."

A decent preview is currently on google: Students' Dictionary of Zoo and Aquarium Studies

You can also buy just the chapters you need on CABI's website, if you're really into certain letters I guess? https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/book/10.1079/9781800620902.0000
 
The Spectacular Steinhart Aquarium: 1923-2023 (Shepherd, 2023) was written by Bart Shepherd, who is Senior Director and began working at the aquarium in 1996. The book is available at the aquarium's gift shop, but ordering it online does not appear to be an option. For those that don't know, the Steinhart Aquarium is technically a century old, but it's only one part of the fantastic California Academy of Sciences complex in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, that opened in 2008.

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