Animal collections

Usage examples of zoos.

We could have sold our animals to zoos in India, but American zoos were willing to pay higher prices.

The final buyers were a number of zoos, mainly the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago and the soon-to-open Minnesota Zoo, but odd animals were going to Los Angeles, Louisville, Oklahoma City and Cincinnati.

Claudi had been in zoos before, and once to a circus, back on Baunhaven.

Since there were many more huntsmen than zoos in those days, that seemed a far more plausible guarantee.

Well, there are no Russian bears in Russian zoos and that was his way of saying there had been no such bride.

Like most zoos, it had quarters for birds, reptiles, small mammals, elephants, antelopes, buffalo, wolves, buildings and fenced enclosures, large and small.

A few had found their way to zoos and amusement parks as biological merry-go-rounds.

Then a dozen or two were captured and shipped out of state to zoos where they could be more easily seen.

I can make out, after laborious visits to all the chief zoos of the nation, no other imaginable purpose is served by their existence.

A college professor studying the habits of the giraffe, for example, and confining his observations to specimens in zoos, would inevitably come to the conclusion that the giraffe is a sedentary and melancholy beast, standing immovable for hours at a time and employing an Italian to feed him hay and cabbages.

There is concern about the larger life forms, many of whose remnants are saved in zoos, but there is yet little understanding that microorganisms, insects, and microscopic plant species are going also.

The view of urbanized society is that preserving a few representative living things in parks and zoos can solve the question of species extinction.

Well, modern zoos put their animals in superficially compatible habitats so that the stupid ones might not even be aware of their confinement.

And it was worth it, because he had as much as promised that if she learned enough he would show her the dead zoos on the third floor.

They were all mixed up in a pile, nursing like the baby pigs in one of the big dead zoos on the second floor.