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GSure, zoos can be places where children first start to wonder about sexual behavior: "Mommy, why are those two hippos playing leapfrog?" But Diane Ackerman isn't focused on that kind of animal beh...
Allusions
Literary and Philosophical ReferencesCharles Darwin (15.38)Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (15.49) (21.7)Historical ReferencesAdolf Hitler (throughout) World War II (throughout)The Holocaust (throu...