ISBN 0 9751023 89
260 mm x 234mm
288 pages
Colour
Hardback
Aust$45.00

 

Life is a Zoo

 

Photographs by Natalie Boog
Text by Catharine Retter
 Introduced by Bradley Trevor Greive*

Life is a Zoo takes you up close and very personal so you get to know the animals the way their keepers do, as individuals with distinct personalities, behaviours, family backgrounds, quirks and funny antics.

Meet over 50 zoo animals, many of them endangered and some rarely seen in the wild.

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Amira the white rhino baby who loves head butting contests with a goat.

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Kluet, the Peter Pan of animals who will never grow up as long as there is another dominant male around, but loves his seductive best friend, Willow.

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Chalky and Milford the Groucho Marx of penguins.

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Orange and Red, two flamingos in need of walking sticks on windy days.

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Suzy, a bellyflopping, killer ballerina.

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And many more.

Catharine Retter’s highly personal stories, as told by the animals’ keepers, and Natalie Boog’s superb photographs take you behind the scenes to let you see the very private yet public life of zoo animals as you have never seen them before.

*International best selling author of the Little Blue Day books