Thought To Exist In the Wild: Awakening from the Nightmare of Zoos

“A zoo is a nightmare taking shape in concrete and steel, iron and glass, moats and electrified fences. It is a nightmare that for its victims has no end save death…”

No Voice Unheard is proud to present its next title, another unique, beautiful, and powerful voice on behalf of the animals – those captive in zoos. Thought to Exist in the Wild is a passionate and unflinching examination of zoos in our society.

Combining elegant, stunning photos with a deep and probing essay, this book presents a critical look at these institutions, the individual animals who live in them, and at ourselves.

Photographer Karen Tweedy-Holmes brings impressive credentials to the project, including photography for National Geographic magazine.

Excerpts

• Seven Steps (p 1)
• Getting To Know My Neighbors (p 2)
• Spectacle (p 3)
• Lifespans (p 4)
• Grizzly Orphans (p 5)
• We Are Afraid of the Wrong Things (p 10)
• Deadly Business (p 12)
• Zoo Proponents’ Narcissism (p 12)
• Animal World Awaits (p 15)
• Great White Shark (p 15)
• Capture (p 46)
• Surplus Animals (p 49)
• Blinding Ourselves To Their Suffering (p 85)
• “The Animals” (p 85)
• What We Learn From Zoos (p 86)
• Unsupportable Pretense (p 88)
• Humans Evolved Embedded In the Natural World (p 89)
• We Are No Longer Human (p 90)
• Popular Entertainment (p 91)
• Children and Zoos (p 92)
• Sins (p 96)
• The Solution (p 111)
• Just Go Outside (p 126)

Reviews

January/February 2008, by Ginger Strand for Orion
January 2008, by Carl Donohue for Nature Photographers Online Magazine (PDF)
June 2007, by Chris Hardie
June 2007, by Christine Canfield

Interviews

June 2008, Derrick was interviewed by Carl Donohue for Naturescapes about Thought to Exist in the Wild

October 2007, Derrick was interviewed about Thought to Exist in the Wild: Live Nude Animals

Translations

• Français
  • Le cauchemar des zoos (p 1)
• Türkçe
  • Yabanda Var Olma Düşüncesi (p 1)
• čeština
  • Pomyšlení na existenci v divočině (p 1)