CONTENTS THE ZOO A LIVING LIBRARY 5 CHAPTER 1 TREETOP TEACHERS CHAPTER 2 THE COMEBACK KITS CHAPTER 3 FECES SAVE SPECIES CHAPTER 4 THE REST OF THE STORY SOURCE NOTES 58 GLOSSARY SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 61 MORE CONSERVATION STORIES 62 INDEX 64 io
Xerxes is a ten year old male lion who lives in the African Savanna area at Seattle's zoo Woodland Park
THE ZOO A LIVING LIBRARY In wildness is the preservation of the world Henry David Thoreau INSIDE THE ZOO THE WILD THE RARE AND THE EXOTIC AWAIT Animals and habitats you've only read about come to life Down one path macaws squawk in the hot sticky air of the tropical rain forest Down another path hippos wallow in ponds surrounded by muddy banks Up a steep hill condors perch in their nests and look at the world below them Inside the zoo the distance between continents shrinks African lions roar Asian siamangs hoot North American alligators snap their gigantic jaws laugh Australian kookaburras
