There's more than one way to exhibit an animal

Here is an article from the 1960s written by Bill Conway of the Bronx Zoo. This completely changed my attitudes towards how animals can be exhibited.

Enjoy...


http://www.zoolex.org/publication/conway/how_to_exhibit_a_bullfrog.pdf

 

Highly appropriate and interesting article for 2008's "Year of the Frog".

 

Congrats, @okapikpr: You stumbled over a well-known good ol' zoo classic... Must have already been mentioned several times on this forum in regard to different topics.

The question should be: why hasn't anybody built such an exhibit yet? Answer: see threads about visitor behaviour...

 

Interestingly, I read somewhere that the cost of keeping a bullfrog in a zoo is approximately the same as a nyala.

BTW, I hope some zoo builds hand-on marsh with frogs and newts, to tap on the great populace of children which pass through a stage of keeping newts and sticklebacks in jam jars. A version of hands-on pool in aquarium with seastars and crabs.

 

You hit the nail right on the head Sun. If all visitors behaved like zoo-fans, the design of exhibits could potentially be limitless.