Describes what a zoo provides for its visitors and discusses the kinds of jobs performed there. Includes sidebar information, color photos, a glossary, and an index.

Zookeeper Iris Oakley finds herself entangled with the brutal operatives of an exotic animal smuggling ring when she tries to find out who's responsible for a group of abandoned rare animals found during a drug bust.

Iris Oakley, pregnant and still grieving her husband's murder, investigates an elephant attack on her boss at the Finley Memorial Zoo in Vancouver, Washington where she works as a keeper. Trouble escalates when several animals go missing, and Iris finds more than enough suspects that hate her boss.

Zookeeper Theodora 'Teddy' Bentley takes Alejandro, the Gunn Zoo llama, to a Monterey Bay Area Renaissance Faire. Soon after, Teddy stumbles upon the still-warm body of the Reverend Victor Emerson, owner of the local wedding chapel. He is dressed in his royal robes as Henry VIII. At first it appears as if Alejandro stomped the man to death, but a closer look reveals a crossbow dart in the man's back. Teddy's investigation proves the "reverend" is...

Recounts how three elephants in a Tokyo zoo were put to death because of the war, focusing on the pain shared by the elephants and the keepers who must starve them.

The true story of how the keepers of the Warsaw Zoo saved hundreds of people from Nazi hands. When Germany invaded Poland, Stuka bombers devastated Warsaw--and the city's zoo along with it. With most of their animals dead, zookeepers Jan and Antonina Żabiński began smuggling Jews into empty cages. Another dozen "guests" hid inside the Żabińskis' villa, emerging after dark for dinner, socializing, and, during rare moments of calm, piano concerts....

"Though she is deeply loved by her parents, the fact that Lydia Brand is adopted has always made her different from her close-knit Amish community. But as Christmas approaches and she begins to search for answers about her biological parents, more questions surface. Soon it seems that the deaths of two women in her small town may not be coincidences, after all. And her pursuit of the truth has left her only with hints of a dark secret--and threats...

To receive her inheritance and make peace with her late mother, Kelli Jackson must abide by the woman's will. Even though it means working as a zookeeper for six months-with animals that terrify her. How can she possibly explain her fears-and her past-to her handsome boss, Jason Andover? The glimpses of kindness- and painful secrets-she sees in his eyes slowly have her sharing everything. But then she makes a startling discovery-one that may tear...

"A zookeeper fights to save the animal she loves, even as her own life crumbles around her...Meg Yancy knows she may be overly attached to Jata, the Komodo dragon that has been in her care since it arrived at the zoo from Indonesia. Jata brings the exotic to Meg's Minnesotan life: an ancient, predatory history and stories of escaping to freedom. A species that became endangered soon after being discovered, Komodos have a legacy of independence, something...

Okay, maybe there are people in Antarctica with penguins in their basements, but in Virginia? Only Meg's dad could manage that one. A body down there--well, that's somewhat more likely. It turns out that explaining the penguins' presence is easy--Meg's dad volunteered to take care of the birds until the future of the bankrupt local zoo could be determined. But identifying the body in the basement proves a harder task--could it be, as Meg fears, that...