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Wild Animals in Captivity
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Wild Animals in Captivity Paperback - 2017

by Rob Laidlaw

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Good Zoos! Bad Zoos!!

A large family of elephants ambles all day along a well-remembered route across the hot African savanna. Halfway around the world in a zoo in Alaska, a single female elephant paces back and forth in her cramped, concrete pen. During the sub-arctic winter, she lives alone in a dark barn.

As it plods great distances across the ice in the Canadian Arctic, a polar bear continually sniffs the wind, closing in on a ringed seal. In a zoo in Jakarta, another polar bear lies motionless on the concrete floor of its enclosure, panting in the tropical heat. Its fur has turned green from the algae growing inside its hollow guard hairs.

These scenes are at the heart of Wild Animals in Captivity -- a book that focuses on wild animals living in captivity around the world. "Captive animals become stressed when they try to act naturally, but can't," the author writes. "In many zoos, you'll see them pacing, weaving, or sitting motionless. This is the animal's way of telling us that it's bored and unhappy. Wild animals need a rich and varied environment -- things to do, space to roam, social groups, families to care for."

This is an eye-opening look at the lives of captive wild animals-at bad zoos, good zoos, and the best wild animal sanctuaries.

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  • Title Wild Animals in Captivity
  • Author Rob Laidlaw
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 48
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fitzhenry & Whiteside
  • Publication date 2017
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Glossary, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9781554553884 / 1554553881
  • Weight 0.4 lbs (0.18 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.9 x 8 x 0.3 in (25.15 x 20.32 x 0.76 cm)
  • Age range 08 to 12 years
  • Grade levels 3 - 7
  • Reading level 1100
  • Category Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction
  • Dewey Decimal Code 636.088

About the author

Rob Laidlaw
has spent the past 30 plus years campaigning to protect wild animals in captivity and in the wild. His work has taken him from the polar north to tropical Asia and includes more than 1,000 visits to zoos around the world. A Chartered Biologist, avid outdoorsman, and cave explorer, he is a founder of the wildlife protection organization Zoocheck Canada.

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