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WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY

  • School Library Journal Best Books 2008 List

  • Ontario Library Association Silver Birch Award 2009 Nominee

  • Pennsylvania School Library Association YA Top 40 2008

     
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This is the best book I have ever read about zoos for children. I can think of nothing more educational than giving this book to every child before visiting a zoo...A must for every parent or teacher who wants their children to learn the truth about zoos."
- Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Author, When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals

This well written book, with its carefully chosen examples and photographs, is a fair assessment of what is bad, better and best for animals in this world of captivity. It will help you to judge for yourself whether or not the conditions are suitable so that, when necessary, you can speak out on behalf of some unhappy animal prisoner.
- Dr. Jane Goodall, DBE, Founder, the Jane Goodall Institute, UN Messenger of Peace

 


START CHILDREN ON THE PATH TO COMPASSION
WITH WILD ANIMALS IN CAPTIVITY

Wild Animals in Captivity is a powerful, dramatically presented book that focuses on the life of wild animals living in captivity around the world. This eye-opening look at the lives of captive wild animals shows the best that captivity has to offer, as well as some of the worst. The lessons it contains will set children on the path to compassion and advocacy, so that they can make the world a better place for all animals, both captive and wild.

When you visit a zoo, do you ever wonder what it must be like for the animals who live day after day in the same enclosures? Rob Laidlaw asks the tough questions that zoos often avoid: Should these animals be here at all? Are we doing everything we can to give them a life that lets them behave as they would in the wild? In Wild Animals in Captivity the reader will:

  • Find out what happens when animals live in unnatural spaces;

  • Discover why wide-ranging animals do poorly in captivity;

  • Read what happens to surplus animals who are no longer wanted;

  • Learn about places that treat captive animals with compassion and respect;

  • Find out how you can make a difference.

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Click here to see a slide show of some of the photos from
Wild Animals In Captivity.
     
"If there ever was a book that taught empathy, compassion, and respect to our fellow beings, that captured the spirit and essence of the varied species with whom we share our planet, then Wild Animals in Captivity is certainly it."
- Elliot Katz, DVM, President, In Defense of Animals