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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Bronx Zoo"”.
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Beyond the Biological: William Beebe, the Bronx Zoo, and U.S. Biological Field Stations in British Guiana
… Beebe, an ornithologist working for the New York Zoological Society, in British Guiana as a branch of the newly opened Bronx Zoo in New York. It was the first biological laboratory set up in the tropics connected to a large research institution in the United States. This paper looks at how these …
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Elephant and Wild Rice: Bringing Rhetorics of Materiality into Judicial Spaces
… Happy, an elephant, to be transferred from the Bronx Zoo to an elephant sanctuary. Happy’s advocates argue for her transfer under habeas corpus. The New York Court of Appeals rules against Happy’s release, reasoning that habeas corpus applies only to humans. The second case is Manoomin v. …
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Using activity budgets and space use preferences to define enclosure appropriateness for African painted dogs, Lycaon pictus (Temminck 1820)
… the need for keeping and breeding animals in zoological gardens is increasing. For animal welfare reasons and to promote health and effective breeding having as close to natural enclosures has become essential on zoological gardens. A clear understanding of how an animal uses its space and …
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Museums and the construction of race ideologies: the case of natural history and ethnographic museums in South Africa
… Further to the discussion about dioramas, human zoos and other forms of racializing spectacles, I make reference to the haunting narratives of the African Diasporas to provide context and perspective. These African individuals are: Sarah Baartman ('The Hottentot Venus') and El Negro 'object 1004' …