The Menagerie - A Zoo Story — J.D. Porter

Animals fascinate us. We live with them as pets and we study them eagerly, both in the wild and in our local zoos and aquariums. Many modern zoos have reached their hundredth anniversary and dozens of books have been written for their centennials, but it is unlikely that any zoo had the knowledge of past events to tell the whole story - until now. The Dotson Park Zoo may be a place of fiction, but its stories will ring true for anyone who has ever been immersed into the culture of zoos. The Menagerie is the story of one of America's great zoos - a zoo that has long prided itself on being at the cutting edge of zoo technology. It is a history that includes a wrestling bear that kills a man in a bar-fight, a cobra in a baby carriage, and chimpanzees and elephants living together in the same space. And it is a history that reveals two dead bodies, both murdered at the zoo.