Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives
- By: Thomas French
- Narrated by: John Allen Nelson
- Duration: 8:44:00
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Welcome to the **savage** and surprising world of **Zoo Story**, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at **Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo**: an **alpha chimp** with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious **tiger** who revels in **Obsession perfume**, and a **brilliant** but **tyrannical CEO** known as **El Diablo Blanco**.
**Zoo Story** crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of **extinction**, humanity's role in the **destruction** or **survival** of other species. More than anything else, though, it's a dramatic and moving true story of **seduction** and **betrayal**, **exile** and **loss**, and the limits of **freedom** on an overcrowded planet-all framed inside one zoo reinventing itself for the **twenty-first century**.
**Thomas French**, a **Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter**, chronicles the action with vivid power: **Wild elephants** soaring above the **Atlantic** on their way to captivity. **Predators** circling each other in a lethal **mating dance**. **Primates** plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the listener from the **African savannah** to the forests of **Panama** and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. All of it comes to life in the book's **four-legged** characters.
**Zoo Story** shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.
Welcome to the **savage** and surprising world of **Zoo Story**, an unprecedented account of the secret life of a zoo and its inhabitants, both animal and human. Based on six years of research, the book follows a handful of unforgettable characters at **Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo**: an **alpha chimp** with a weakness for blondes, a ferocious **tiger** who revels in **Obsession perfume**, and a **brilliant** but **tyrannical CEO** known as **El Diablo Blanco**.
**Zoo Story** crackles with issues of global urgency: the shadow of **extinction**, humanity's role in the **destruction** or **survival** of other species. More than anything else, though, it's a dramatic and moving true story of **seduction** and **betrayal**, **exile** and **loss**, and the limits of **freedom** on an overcrowded planet-all framed inside one zoo reinventing itself for the **twenty-first century**.
**Thomas French**, a **Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter**, chronicles the action with vivid power: **Wild elephants** soaring above the **Atlantic** on their way to captivity. **Predators** circling each other in a lethal **mating dance**. **Primates** plotting the overthrow of their king. The sweeping narrative takes the listener from the **African savannah** to the forests of **Panama** and deep into the inner workings of a place some describe as a sanctuary and others condemn as a prison. All of it comes to life in the book's **four-legged** characters.
**Zoo Story** shows us how these remarkable individuals live, how some die, and what their experiences reveal about the human desire to both exalt and control nature.