Table of Contents
Figures ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction Daniel Vandersommers Tracy McDonald 3
1 Psychotic Humans, Psychotic Animals: The Zoo and the Mental Hospital, 1656-1794 Matthew Senior 19
2 The Antelope Collectors Nigel Rothfels 45
3 Failed Zoo Experiments: Primatology, Aeronautics, and the Animality of "Modern" Science, 1891-1903 Daniel Vandersommers 65
4 Sculpting Dinah with the Blunt Tools of the Historian Tracy McDonald 93
5 Stereoscopic Animals: Spectatorship, Kodiak Bears, and the Keystone Animal Set Zeb Tortorici 119
6 "Try Telling That to the Polar Bears": Rationing and Resistance at the Wartime Zoo John Kinder 145
7 Gust (ca 1952-1988), or a History from Below of the Changing Zoo Violette Pouillard 167
8 Child Stars at the Zoo: The Rise and Fall of Polar Bear Knut Guro Flinterud 191
9 Pandas and the Reproduction of Race and Heterosexuality in the Zoo Marianna Szczygielska 211
10 Flying Penguins in Japan's Northernmost Zoo Takashi Ito 237
11 Al Gore, Blackfish, and Me: Eco-activist Progress and Prospects for the Future Randy Malamud 262
12 Reorienting the Space of Containment, or from Zoosphere to Noosphere and Beyond Ron Broglio 276
13 Zoomorphic Bodies: Moving and Being Moved by Animals Jonathan Osborn 294
Bibliography 313
Contributors 333
Index 337