Malamud (English, Georgia State U.) describes zoos as cultural attractions that, along with their captive animals, are subsumed within various human-centered social structures and systems of culture and thus misrepresent the realities of animals' existence and their role of this planet. He argues that looking at caged animals in the middle of a city offers neither knowledge nor appreciation, but merely reinforces the conviction that as the imperial species human are entitled to trap animals, remove them from their world, and confine them in ours. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
