Life at the Zoo: Behind the Scenes with the Animal Doctors

Phillip T. Robinson

Paper, 320 pages, 58 illus., 8 in color
ISBN: 978-0-231-13249-7
$17.95 / £11.95

October, 2004
Cloth, 320 pages, 58 illus., 8 in color
ISBN: 978-0-231-13248-0
$29.95 / £19.95

Preface

Introduction

1. Intern at the Zoo: An Eclectic Orientation

2. Too Early for the Autopsy: Fitting in at the Zoo

3. Growing Pains: Educating the Menagerie Makers

4. The Keepers: Nurturing the Health of Animals

5. Zoo Babies: Promoting Motherhood

6. Exhibit Making: Creating Zoo Ecosystems

7. Creature Comfort: The Power of Microenvironments

8. What's This Thing? Searching for the Normal

9. Holding the Tiger: Zoos Say Yes to Drugs

10. Finding the Sick in the Zoo: Seeking Out Disease and Discomfort

11. Feeding the Ark: The Nutritional Wisdom of Animals

12. Getting Closer to Animals: Judas Goats and Alpaca Coats

13. So, You Work at the Zoo?Employees, Visitors, and Fence Jumpers

14. Animal Cases and Chases: And Some Things Better Kept to Myself

15. Zoo Regulars: Coworkers Without Titles

16. Ethical Captivity: Animal Well-Being in Zoos

17. What a Zoo Should Be: And Ought Not Be

Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works on Zoos

Related Subjects

• Animal Studies

About the Author

Phillip T. Robinson directed the veterinary medical program at the San Diego Zoo for ten years. He then became director of veterinary services and animal resources at the University of California, San Diego. A founding member of the board specialty of zoological medicine of the American College of Zoological Medicine and a past president of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, he has also worked on the medical problems of animals in private collections and has been on the design team for several major zoo-animal medical facilities in the United States.

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