There's more than one way to exhibit an animal

[okapikpr]

Here is an article from the 1960s written by Bill Conway of the Bronx Zoo. This completely changed my attitudes towards how animals can be exhibited.

Enjoy...


http://www.zoolex.org/publication/conway/how_to_exhibit_a_bullfrog.pdf

 

[snowleopard]

Highly appropriate and interesting article for 2008's "Year of the Frog".

 

[Sun Wukong]

Congrats, @okapikpr: You stumbled over a well-known good ol' zoo classic... Must have already been mentioned several times on this forum in regard to different topics.

The question should be: why hasn't anybody built such an exhibit yet? Answer: see threads about visitor behaviour...

 

[Jurek7]

Interestingly, I read somewhere that the cost of keeping a bullfrog in a zoo is approximately the same as a nyala.

BTW, I hope some zoo builds hand-on marsh with frogs and newts, to tap on the great populace of children which pass through a stage of keeping newts and sticklebacks in jam jars. A version of hands-on pool in aquarium with seastars and crabs.

 

[Zooish]

The question should be: why hasn't anybody built such an exhibit yet? Answer: see threads about visitor behaviour...

You hit the nail right on the head Sun. If all visitors behaved like zoo-fans, the design of exhibits could potentially be limitless.