Helpful Score: 2
This book will surely tug at your heartstrings, while also making you think. It'll make you more thoughtfully consider zoos and what they do, whether you love or hate them. This is an unbiased look at the balance between conservation and captivity, and it makes one think about the environment and our responsibility to it and to animals.
Well written and unbiased. Facts are presented, the reader is left to make their own choices regarding the value of zoos. There are many stories following the lives of featured animals, how they got there, their past if known, their future. The keepers, as well, are featured with insight as to their commitment to their charges and career. This is not a warm, fuzzy, animal story book. The Lowry Park Zoo in Tampa, FL is portrayed as a business, as entertainment, as a conservator of species, as an educational institution and it is all these things.
