Archaeology of Zoos: Our Favourite Links
Some Zoos We've Visited as a Group
Smithsonian National Zoological Park
Burgers' Zoo
Dublin Zoo
Chessington World of Adventures
Zoo Links
Current Zoo News from Google
Odd animal news from Ananova
Zoos: A Historical Perspective.
From the Smithsonian Institution Libraries: “A collection of pamphlets
and guide books published by zoos over the past century”... this online feature
is a sample of the works held by the National Zoological Park branch of the
Smithsonian Institution Libraries.
http://www.sil.si.edu/ondisplay/zoos/explore.htm
Transparency Now, by Ken Sanes,
journalist. His page on "The Age of Simulation" contains some interesting essays
on artificial nature:
www.transparencynow.com/tablesim.htm.
Especially
http://www.transparencynow.com/zoos1.htm!
http://home.t-online.de/home/gr.filz/af/biblio.htm
een duitse "Bibliographie Zoorachitectuur" die eerder de
technische ipv esthetische toer opgaat - maar bevat toch
talloze referenties naar vakliteratuur over nieuwe verblijven in
dierentuinen vanaf 1900
How Animals and People Coexist,
by Randy Malamud.
Chronicle of Higher Education. January 24, 2003.
Great book review covering recent volumes on zoos and related topics.
http://chronicle.com/free/v49/i20/20b00701.htm
From Bear Pit to Zoo. Hannah O'Regan. In British
Archaeology, December 2002.
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/ba/ba68/feat2.shtml
Zoo Web: Excellent
gateway site for all things zoo: www.zooweb.com
Zoos Worldwide: Another gateway site with links
to many zoo homepages:
www.zoos-worldwide.com
Zoos of the World: Gateway, German and English:
www.zoos.org
Zoo Lex?:
Zoo Design Organization. Details of zoo exhibits.
http://www.zoolex.org/
Zoo Check Canada
"A national animal protection charity established to protect wildlife
in captivity and in the wild." www.zoocheck.com/
Also see their links page for many related organizations working on issues of
wildlife in captivity internationally:
www.zoocheck.com/links/
Captive Animals' Protection Society
Sad stories indeed, and efforts towards change, particularly in the
UK.
www.captiveanimals.org/
Zoo Biology
Breeding (natural and rather unnatural), behavioural enrichment, effects of
enclosure design on stereotypy, things you probably never knew about parakeets,
etc.
http://www.interscience.wiley.com/jpages/0733-3188/
PSYETA, Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
has two journals with some online content:
Society & Animals: The Journal of Human-Animal Studies
and
http://www.psyeta.org/sa/index.html
the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
http://www.psyeta.org/jaaws/index.html
Both include articles which touch on zoo issues.