The New York Zoological Society's guide to Mammals, Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians of the world—what they look like, what they do, where and how long they live, their size and the food they eat. More than 2.000 animals from every part of the world are discussed. Illustrated with 252 photographs, many in color.
Chances are this is not the first Zoo you have visited— people who like animals have a way of going to the Zoo wherever they find one. We hope you enjoy the Bronx Zoo, and especially that it gives you new Ideas about animals and how they live. Basically that's what zoos are for— to increase our knowledge of the animals that share our world, to raise our levels of interest and, in short, to enrich life.
To show how animals live is not itself a new idea, some European Zoos were pioneering in the display of animals in more or less natural settings at the beginning of this century. What is new is the refinement of exhibition techniques, a deepening involvement in environmental education and such concept as the Zoo's responsibility to preserve threatened wild animals.