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The Biggest Human Zoo in History

One of the darkest aspects of the late 19th and early 20th century was casual disregard for the personhood of human beings ...
Psychology TodayOpinion

The Hidden Lives of Zoo Animals and the Need to Improve Them

Eve D'Vincent challenges claims that zoo animals are true ambassadors for their species and argues for a shift in ...
The Washington Post

How a Salvadoran prison became a political human zoo

Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript for the best experience. A group Igorot men and boys at the 1904 World's Fair in St. Louis ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Man Who Invented the Modern Zoo Tested Out His Ideas on People First

Carl Hagenbeck opened his Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg, Germany, in 1907. Decades earlier, the impresario had exhibited Indigenous humans in conditions that replicated their home environments. Public ...
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Video of bear at a Chinese zoo has people asking: Is that a bear or human in costume?

A zoo in China is facing a burning question from the internet: Is one of their bears actually a human in a bear suit? The intrigue began when footage of Angela, a Malayan sun bear, standing on her ...
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Giraffes In North American Zoos Have Been Hybridizing – And That’s A Problem

New research has thrown a spanner in the works for giraffe conservation, after analyzing the genetics of giraffes kept in human care in North America, and finding that most of those studied are in ...