Gathering of Animals: An Unconventional History of the New York Zoological Society

I read this book in the 1980s and had the luxury of visiting the Bronx Zoo frequently while I was reading. If you have any interest in animals or zoos this book will be a pleasure to read. It's one of my top 15 books of all time. Believe me, there are some things that happened at this zoo that you can not even begin to imagine. History just jumps off the pages and into your heart.

As a volunteer at the Bronx Zoo (once known as the NY Zoological Society, now part of the Wildlife Conservation Society), I am finding this very readable hitory (written by someone intimately familiar with the zoo) very entertaining and useful. I wish everyone could know about the wonderful work the Zoo has done preserving and breeding endangered species over more than 100 years. Virtually every buffalo (bison) is related to the ones brought to the Zoo in the early part of the last century.