What's New? The Zoo!

Did you know . . . The first zoo was established 4,300 years ago in present-day Iraq? Aztec King Montezuma II had such an incredible oollection of animals that it took 600 men and women to care for them? Zoos were crucial in the development of scientific theories of classification and evolution? 50 buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?

Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring jazzy style and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals, and the ways animals have changed us in turn.