Animal Experiences
Colin Tudge: At the zoo, 21 June 2001
A Different Nature: The Paradoxical World of Zoos and Their Uncertain Future
by David Hancocks.
California, 280 pp., £19.95, May 2001,0 520 21879 5 Show More
by David Hancocks.
California, 280 pp., £19.95, May 2001,
“... hostile. ‘Good riddance’ was the general response. In the wake of her role as Joy Adamson in Born Free, Virginia McKenna and her husband, Bill Travers, founded Zoo Check, in essence anti-zoo. As London Zoo languished, Zoo Check flourished. In 1990, the post-Zuckerman Council declared that London Zoo must close. It was saved by the ‘Reform ... ”
