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Romantic Rhinos and Victorian Vipers: The Zoo as Nineteenth-Century Spectacle
by Ashton Nichols If you could have seen what it was like when I was a boy–half zoo and half museum, my father let us do anything we wanted. For a while we had a big tree in the … Continue reading
Rhinoceroses, Elephants, Crocodiles and other “Monsters”
Rhinoceroses caused a stir when they were exhibited in Europe and America. The menagerie in the Tower of London closed in 1834, but English monarchs had been collecting a wide variety of wild animals since the Middle Ages. By the … Continue reading