A study on the history of zoological parks in the United States

Abstract

This study aims to reveal the historical process of zoological parks in the United States and to make clear the forming process of ecological exhibit recently developped in the United States. Historical process was divided into 8 stages. Development of the ecological exhibit that was originated by the Hargenbeck Vista has been restricted under the influence of zoogeographical arrangement concept and modernism. Recently, using the Biome concept it has been able to develop the habitat arrangement and its origin was the Diorama at the American Museum of Natural History.
As a view to zoological park in the United States was strongly influenced by the circus at an earlier stage, view that identified zoo with the show for entertainment had been formed for a long time.