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Abstract

Was the zoo a place for science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries? This Special Issue addresses this question with case studies that focus on individual animals such as anteaters, axolotls, dolphins, hoatzins, kangaroos, cassowaries and tarpans. The eight articles ask in how far the specific conditions of the zoo enabled but also conditioned or even impeded the generation of knowledge. And they show how closely intertwined these investigations were with issues of taxonomy, breeding, conservation and practical zoo management.　

Table of contents

Oliver Hochadel: Science at the Zoo. An Introduction

Helen Cowie: A Tale of Two Anteaters: Madrid 1776 and London 1853

Christian Reiß: Knowing is surviving. The Mexican Axolotl, two Paris Zoos and the Role of Practical Knowledge in Keeping Unknown Animals, 1850-1876

Oliver Hochadel: How to get into the Pouch. Solving the riddle of the kangaroo birth (1826-1926)

Elle Larsson: "Here they are in flesh and feather": Walter Rothschild’s "private zoo" and the preparation and taxonomic study of cassowaries　

Katherine McLeod: How to Display a Hoatzin: Animal Care and Conservation Science in the early 20th Century　

Violette Pouillard: Animal nutrition, animal experiments, and the zoo as a laboratory, London Zoo – Paris Ménagerie, 19th century – ca. 2000　

Marianna Szczygielska: Undoing Extinction. The Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922-1965　

Miquel Carandell: Mediterranean Dolphins from Miami: Knowledge and practices in the Barcelona Zoo "Aquarama" in the 1960s