African Safari and the founding of Zoos

[ZooChronicles]

I recently watched an program on the history of safari with Richard E Grant, throughout the program the old safari was claimed to be done in the case of scientific discovery and zoology.

Amongst the many pictures of dead 'game' their were animals captured alive and brought to zoos across the world. Given the time period that safari was at its height (the early to mid 19th century) many of today's zoos would have been founded this way.

As admires of Zoos, how do you feel about big game safari and the means and ways zoos were founded?

 

[nanoboy]

I recently watched an program on the history of safari with Richard E Grant, throughout the program the old safari was claimed to be done in the case of scientific discovery and zoology.

Amongst the many pictures of dead 'game' their were animals captured alive and brought to zoos across the world. Given the time period that safari was at its height (the early to mid 19th century) many of today's zoos would have been founded this way.

As admires of Zoos, how do you feel about big game safari and the means and ways zoos were founded?

There is one beautiful word that describes my acceptance of how things were done back then: zeitgeist.

 

[DavidBrown]

I think that the big game safaris had a lot more to do with the founding of natural history museum collections than the actual founding of zoos. The live animal trade is quite distinct from the big game hunting industry, although obviously related.