Book, Movie, and Documentary Reviews - Table of Contents

Book Reviews

Act III in Patagonia: People and Wildlife, by William Conway
America's Best Zoos, by Allen W. Nyhius and Jon Wassner

America's Snake: Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake, by Ted Levin
America's Top 100 Zoos & Aquariums, by Tim Brown and Scott Richardson

Anteater of Death, by Betty Webb
At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, by Raymond Bonner

Bald Eagle: The Improbable Journey of America's Bird, by Jack E. Davis

Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time, by Jonathan Weiner

Beaverland: How One Weird Rodent Made America, by Leila Philips

Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction, by Michelle Nijhuis
Bevy of Beasts/Beasts in My Belfry, by Gerald Durrell

Birdmania: A Remarkable Passion for Birds, by Bernd Brunner

Birds of Heaven: Travels with Cranes, by Peter Matthiessen
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds, by Joy Adamson

Brilliant Abyss: Exploring the Majestic Hidden Life of the Deep Ocean, by Helen Scales

Bushmaster: Raymond Ditmars and the Hunt for the World's Largest Viper, by Dan Eatherley
Certain Curve of Horn, by John Frederick Walker

Chasing Giants: In Search of the World's Largest Freshwater Fish, by Zeb Hogan

Churchill's Menagerie: Winston Churchill and the Animal Kingdom, by Piers Brendon

Condor: To the Brink and Back - the Life and Times of One Giant Bird, by John Nielsen 
Confessions of an Accidental Zoo Curator, by Annette Libeskind Berkovits

Crocodiles of the World: Complete Guide to Alligators, Caimans, Crocodiles, Gharials, by Colin Stevenson

Cry of the Kalahari, by Mark and Delia Owens

Don't Let Them Disappear, by Chelsea Clinton and Gianna Marino
Drawn from Paradise: Natural History, Art, Discovery of Birds of Paradise, by David Attenborough
Dragon Behind the Glass, by Emily Voigt
Eighth Continent: Life, Death, and Discovery in the Lost World of Madagascar, by Peter Tyson

Emerald Labyrinth: A Scientist's Adventures in the Jungles of the Congo, by Eli Greenbaum
Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century, by Kirk Wallace Johnson

Four Fish: The Future of the Last Wild Food, by Paul Greenberg

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law, by Mary Roach
Gathering of Animals: An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society, by William Bridges
Genius of Birds, by Jennifer Ackerman
Ghost with Trembling Wings, by Scott Weidensaul

Gorilla Tactics: How to Save a Species, by Greg Cummings

Grail Bird: The Rediscovery of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, by Tim Gallagher

Great Zoo of China, by Matthew Reilly
Hope for Animals and Their World, by Jane Goodall, with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson

Horns of Darkness: Rhinos on the Edge, by Carol Cunningham and Joel Berger

Hunt for the Golden Mole: All Creatures Great and Small, and Why They Matter, by Richard Girling

I, Mammal: The Story of What Makes Us Mammals, by Liam Drew
Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World, by Andrea Wulf

Invisible Ark: In Defense of Captivity, by David G. Baker and Tracy M. Baker
Jaguar, by Alan Rabinowitz
Journey of the Pink Dolphins: An Amazon Quest, by Sy Montgomery
Kingdom Under Glass, by Jay Kirk

Lady and the Panda, by Vicki Constantine Croke
Last Flight of the Scarlet Macaw, by Bruce Barcott

Last of Its Kind: The Search for the Great Auk and the Discovery of Extinction, by Gísli Pálsson

Last Tortoise: A Tale of Extinction in Our Lifetime, by Craig B. Stanford

Last Unicorn: A Search for One of Earth's Rarest Creatures, by William deBuys

Last Wild Horses, by Maja Lunde
Life List: A Woman's Quest for the World's Most Amazing Birds, by Olivia Gentile
Life of Pi, by Yann Martel
Man In A Cage, by Robert Elgin

Many Things Under a Rock: The Mysteries of Octopuses, by David Scheel 
Misadventures of a Zoo Keeper, by Bill Naylor
Modoc: The True Story of the Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived, by Ralph Helfer
Monster of God, by David Quammen
Mother Nature is Trying to Kill You:Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World, by Dan Riskin

Mr. Hornaday's War, by Stefan Betchel
Night Kill, by Ann Littlewood
Out of Eden: An Odyssey of Ecological Invasion, by Alan Burdick

Overloaded Ark, by Gerald Durrell
Poseidon's Steed: The Story of Seahorses, From Myth to Reality, by Helen Scales
Professor in the Zoo: Designing the Future for Wildlife in Human Care, by Terry L. Maple
Puffin of Death, by Betty Webb
Reflections of Eden: My Years with the Orangutans of Borneo, by Birute M. F. Galdikas
Resurrection Science: Conservation, De-Extinction, & Precarious Future of Wild Things, by M. R. O'Connor
Return of the Unicorns: Natural History & Conservation of the One-Horned Rhinoceros, by Eric Dinerstein

Rewilding North America, by Dave Foreman
Rhino with Glue-On Shoes, edited by Lucy H. Spelman and Ted Y. Mashima

Sailing with Noah: Stories from the World of Zoos, by Jeffrey P. Bonner

Seabird’s Cry: The Lives and Loves of the Planet’s Great Ocean Voyagers, by Adam Nicolson

Secret World of Red Wolves, by T. Delene Beeland
Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert

Smiling Bears, by Else Poulsen
Snake Charmer: A Life and Death in Pursuit of Knowledge, by Jamie James
Snakebite Survivors' Club: Travels with Serpents, by Jeremy Seal
Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction, by David Quammen
Spix's Macaw: The Race to Save the World's Rarest Bird, by Tony Juniper

Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers, and Skullduggery, by Jennie Erin Smith
Storks, Ibises, and Spoonbills of the World, by James A. Hancock, James A. Kushlan, and M. Philip Kahl

Sunset at the Zoo: The Zoo You Don't Know, by Steve Graham
Swamp: The Everglades, Florida, and the Politics of Paradise, by Michael Grunwald
Tears of the Cheetah: The Genetic Secrets of Our Animal Ancestors, by Stephen J. O'Brien

That Bear Ate My Pants! Adventures of Idiot Abroad, by Tony James Slater

Through the Lion Gate - A History of the Berlin Zoo, by Gary Bruce
Throwim Way Leg: Tree-Kangaroos, Possums, and Penis Gourds, by Tim Flannery
Tibet Wild: A Naturalist's Journeys to the Roof of the World, by George B. Schaller
Tower, The Zoo, and The Tortoise, by Julia Stuart
Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History... by Daniel Hahn

Turtles of the World, by Franck Bonin, Bernard Devaux, and Alain Dupre
Unexpected Truth About Animals, by Lucy Cooke

Vaquita: Science, Politics, and Crime in the Sea of Cortez, by Brooke Bessesen
Visions of Caliban: Of Chimpanzees and People, by Dale Peterson and Jane Goodall
War with the Newts, by Karel Capek
Waterfowl Man of Sylvan Heights: Mike Lubbock's Worldwide Quest to Save Waterfowl, by Dale True

West with Giraffes, by Lynda Rutledge
Where the Wild Things Were, by William Stolzenburg

Why Peacocks: An Unlikely Search for Meaning in the World's Most Magnificent Bird, by Sean Flynn

Wild Cats of the World, by Mel Sunquist and Fiona Sunquist

Woolly: The True Story of the Quest to Revive One of History's Most Iconic Creatures, by Ben Mezich

You Belong In a Zoo!, by Peter Brazaitis

Zoo: The Wild and Wonderful Tale of the Founding of the London Zoo, by Isobel Charman

Zoo Story: Life in the Garden of Captives, by Thomas French

Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story, by Diane Ackerman

Zoologist's Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens, by Arik Kershenbaum

Zoomility: Keeper Tales of Training with Positive Reinforcement, by Grey Stafford

Movie Reviews

Dolphin Tale
Fierce Creatures

Hatari!
Murders in the Zoo
Zebra in the Kitchen

Zookeeper
Zoombies

Documentary Reviews

Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth

Blackfish (Carson Jones)
Blue Planet - Seas of Life
Life in Cold Blood

Magic of Disney's Animal Kingdom

Mission Blue

Morgan Spurlock's The Inside Man

Tiger 24: The Making of a Man-Eater
Tiger King - Murder, Mayhem, and Madness