ACBS 160D1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Endangered Species Act Of 1973, Cites, Insitu

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Animal & Comp Biomed Sciences
• Course: ACBS 160D1
• Professor: H.Steklis, N.Steklis

Document Summary

People have kept animals in captivity in menageries for thousands of years, long before the concept of zoo ever existed. Wealthy elites in ancient egypt, greece, china, and rome except exotic animals as a demonstration of wealth individuals or wealth of the empire animals were often gifts from the leaders of other kingdoms or states. Egyptian empire recent evidence shows menagerie in 5500 bp with hippos, elephants, baboons, wildcats. Assyrian empire: 2800 bp capital of the empire had botanic gardens and menagerie. Roman empire- 107 ad the emperor trajan. B(cid:455) the late (cid:1005)(cid:1010)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s, pri(cid:448)ate (cid:373)e(cid:374)ageries (cid:449)ere status s(cid:455)(cid:373)(cid:271)ols for (cid:449)ealth(cid:455) europea(cid:374)s, a(cid:374)d commoners were not able to view them. Commoners had to see animals as part of travelling shows, where exotic animals ere e(cid:454)hi(cid:271)ited (cid:862)freaks(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:374)ati(cid:448)e peoples shift to keeping animals for entertainment in urban centers. Perhaps move to urban environment distanced humans from wild. Europe i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1009)(cid:1004)(cid:1004)"s had (cid:862)(cid:271)ear garde(cid:374)s(cid:863) (cid:894)paris, lo(cid:374)do(cid:374)(cid:895)