“Animal Turn” in History
Daniel Vandersommers has written a very nice post for the AHA Today (the blog of the American Historical Association) about Animals and History. Check it out: http://blog.historians.org/2016/11/animal-turn-history/.
Review of Elephant House
A nice review of Elephant House has appeared in the Shepherd Express by David Luhrssen: http://shepherdexpress.com/article-28699-elephant-house-%28pennsylvania-state-university-press%29-by-dick-blau-and-nigel-rothfels.html
New issue of Sloth
The ASI has just published Sloth 2.1 (Winter 2016). “Editors’ Introduction.” Kelly Enright and Kara Kendall-Morwick “The Exotic Enthralls: Comparing Pre-modern Colonization with Present-day Exotic Pet Keeping.” Natalie Cortez Klossner “The Dichotomy of Sight vs Touch: The Harm of the Primacy of
Ben Minteer on Zootopia
Ben Minteer (ASU) has new piece on the “parallax zoo,” Zootopia, the expansion of Denmark’s Givskud Zoo. The essay is a shorter version of the chapter he has written for the forthcoming The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium