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Reviewed by Paul Grayson | Book Review | The Indiana Magazine of History, 104.2 | The History Cooperative
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The Politics of Zoos
Exotic Animals and Their Protectors

By Jesse Donahue and Erik Trump
(De Kalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 224. Illustrations, notes, selected bibliography, index. Clothbound, $40.00; paperbound, $24.00.)

Several years ago a focus-group participant, asked to comment on a proposed new zoo exhibit, wryly noted: "When you've seen one zoo, you've seen them all." On the surface this observation would seem to contain some truth, but in reality the nation's zoos, aquariums, and marine parks are as diverse as the animal collections they exhibit and care for. There are institutions that are run as for-profit entertainment venues and others that are operated as non-profit cultural attractions. Governance runs the spectrum from private non-tax supported facilities to institutions that are extensions of local, state, and even the federal government. There are very large and complex operations that cost tens of millions of dollars to operate annually, and there are small facilities with operating budgets of less than one million dollars. . . .
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