Prologue: The Pandas at Pearl Harbor

Introduction: Two World Wars

Part I. The Thirties Experience
1. The Monkey’s Lament
2. Hitler’s Zoos
3. The Bear at Buchenwald
4. Zoos in an Age of International Cooperation
5. A Dress Rehearsal in Espańa

Part II. Opening Day Activities
6. Zero Hour
7. The Freeze and the Thaw
8. The Rape of the Zoo
9. American Zoos (Finally) Go to War
10. Helpless Gazelles and Beasts on the Hunt

Part III. Commissary and Administration (Staff Only)
11. Domestic Worries
12. Zoos without Keepers
13. Doing Their Bit

Part IV. Carnivore Encounters
14. Sacrificial Lambs
15. Bombing the Zoo
16. The Mask of the Chimpanzee
17. Beastly Liberations
18. KZ Zoo

Part V. Future Exhibits
19. Brave Zoo World
Epilogue: Baboon or Bear?

Acknowledgments of a Recovering Zoo-Lover
Notes
Index