Netflix’s hit docuseries Tiger King is so relentlessly crazy that it’s easy to think that its particular breed of bananas sprang from the present moment fully formed, like a leopard-clad Athena ...

“WHAT greater pleasure can there be for a private gentleman than that of maintaining and establishing personal friendships with a large collection of foreign animals?” The words were written by Carl ...

The Tierpark Hagenbeck (or Hamburg Zoo) is owned by the Hagenbeck family; Carl Hagenbeck, Jr. (who founded the zoo in 1907) was a wild animal trader and merchant. One of his innovations was to use ...

In a short time Carl Hagenbeck, though a mere boy, was making deals for the purchase of entire circuses and menageries. He not only found himself a redoubtable competitor of William Jamrach of London, ...

Introduction: Under the sign of Hagenbeck -- The business of collecting -- The living habitat -- Hagenbeck's turn to fiction -- The art of Hagenbeck's zoo -- The park and the cinema -- Conclusion: The ...

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THE name of Carl Hagenbeck has attained such world-wide celebrity that a volume from the pen of the great animal-dealer and animal-tamer must surely receive a hearty welcome from the reading-public.