![]() ![]() A thoughtful and moving but unsentimental portrait of life in captivity and a broad introduction to some of its most salient-and intractable-dilemmas. He took real life and wrote it down for us, with eloquence and feeling and aching detail. ![]() Tom French did in this book what he always does. It takes you inside the human heart, and an elephants, and a primates, and on and on. We are forced to reconsider our notions of freedom and captivity when presented with such scenarios as 11 partially sedated wild South African elephants being moved to U.S. 'This story, told by a master teller of such things, does more than take you inside the cages, fences, and walls of a zoo. The author introduces readers to Herman, the lovable species-confused chimpanzee who has reigned at Lowry Park for three decades Enshalla, whose “family history was like a Greek tragedy,” and her mate Eric, Sumatran tigers whose attempts at mating captivate the zoo staff Ladybug, the black bear who likes oranges and peanut butter Lex Salisbury, the ambitious CEO who holds the fate of the zoo animals and humans in his hands and the trainers who witness the circle of life and death among their charges. Thomas French is a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and the Riley Endowed Chair in Journalism at Indiana University. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas French investigates the life and death struggles of animals at Tampa Zoo, exposing the corporate greed that nearly. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist French goes behind the scenes at Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo in this absorbing and balanced account that reveals extinction, conservation, and captivity issues in all their moral complexities and featuring a very memorable cast. ![]()
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