ABSTRACT
This chapter describes a few arbitrarily selected representatives of many small zoos to confine their attentions either to particular groups of animals, or to a particular zoogeographic region, or to habitat types. The zoos which have been selected are the Jersey Zoo, Jurong Bird Park in Singapore, Pare Zoologique de Cleres in France, the Wildfowl Trust in the United Kingdom, and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in the USA. The Jersey Zoo was started in 1959 by Gerald Durre. Jersey Zoo has seven species of the two related groups of pocketsized monkeys – marmosets and tamarins – from the forests of South America, and all but one of them breed regularly. Jurong Bird Park is a good example of a collection confined to one order of animals. Over 7,000 birds from approximately 350 species and subspecies are kept in 78 aviaries dotted around the Park.
