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Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011

1 online resource (vi, 247 p.) : ill

ISBN 0813932084 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780813932088 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0813931673 (cloth alk. paper)

ISBN 9780813931678 (cloth alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction : the dead ark / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- "The Queen’s ass" : the cultural life of Queen Charlotte’s zebra in Georgian Britain / Christopher Plumb -- Maharajah the elephant’s journey : from nature to culture / Samuel J.M.M. Alberti -- Sir Roger the elephant / Richard Sutcliffe, Mike Rutherford, and Jeanne Robinson -- "Under my skin" : the biography of a Manchester mandrill / Sophie Everest -- Balto the dog / Rachel Poliquin -- The biogeographies of a hollow-eyed harrier / Merle Patchett, Kate Foster, and Hayden Lorimer -- Biological objects and "mascotism" : the life and times of Alfred the gorilla / Hannah Paddon -- Neurath’s whale / Michelle Henning -- The afterlife of Chi-Chi / Henry Nicholls -- The Thames whale : the difficult birth of a celebrity specimen / Richard C. Sabin -- Enlivened through memory : hunters and hunting trophies / Garry Marvin -- An afterword on afterlife / Geoffrey N. Swinney.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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