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Title The afterlives of animals : a museum menagerie / edited by Samuel J.M.M. Alberti
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 247 pages) : illustrations
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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SUBJECT Animal 2017 Bildband gnd
Subject Famous animals -- Biography
Famous animals -- Collection and preservation
Natural history museums -- Exhibitions
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation.
Animals -- Biography.
Taxidermy -- Anecdotes
Menageries.
Animals and civilization.
Animals
menageries.
NATURE -- Animals -- General.
NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- General.
SCIENCE -- History.
Animals
Animals and civilization
Famous animals
Menageries
Natural history museums
Taxidermy
Zoological specimens -- Collection and preservation
Bekanntheit
Gedenken
Musealisierung
Genre/Form collective biographies.
Anecdotes
Biographies
Exhibition catalogs
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
Author Alberti, Samuel J. M. M., editor.
LC no. 2011008110
ISBN 9780813932088
0813932084
9780813933900
0813933900
1280490160
9781280490163
9786613585394
6613585394