history of latin american zoos

With records of over 4,200 individual elephants that have resided in North America (but many still to go), it is always exciting to find another. Miami animal dealer Alton Freeman sent this 3-year-old female Asian elephant “Mamie” to a new zoo in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic in January...

I found this interesting article the other day on the history of zoos in Latin America written by a scholar at Oxford University, UK. It chronicles the the ancient / Pre-Colombian history of zoos in the region, the colonial and post-independence periods and the modern history of these...