What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos by Kathleen Krull & Marcellus Hall

What's New? The Zoo!: A Zippy History of Zoos

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  • Genre Animals for Kids
  • Publisher Scholastic Inc.
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  • Size 68.47 MB
  • Length 44 Pages

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With friendly facts, funny pictures, and animals galore, What's New? The Zoo! is history to roar for!Did you know . . . * The first zoo was established forty-three hundred years ago in what is now Iraq?* Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them?* Children across Great Britain wrote to Queen Victoria when Jumbo the elephant was sold away from the London Zoo?* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?* Zoos now play a crucial role in animal conservation?Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring witty insight, jazzy style, and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn.

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