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  • ISBN: 1891620282
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  • Author: Center for Public Integrity,Alan Green
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  • Language: English
  • Publisher: PublicAffairs; 1st edition (September 23, 1999)
  • Pages: 320 pages
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Alan Green (Author), Center for Public Integrity (Author). Not necessarily, writes investigative reporter Alan Green, who takes his readers behind the bars in Animal Underworld to tell an unsettling tale of deception and cruelty.

Alan Green (Author), Center for Public Integrity (Author). ISBN-13: 978-1891620287. That story opens at a zoo in northern Virginia, one of many such places around the United States in which black bears, once an exotic sight, have become a too-common commodity. Baby bears bring crowds, Green writes; unruly juveniles and listless adults do not. What happens to the bears who cannot contribute to the zoo's overhead?

Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species. The Center for Public Integrity (2000). Citizen Muckraking: Stories and Tools for Defeating the Goliaths of Our Day.

Animal Underworld: Inside America's Black Market for Rare and Exotic Species. ISBN 978-1-58648-374-6. Lewis, Charles; The Center for Public Integrity (2000). ISBN 978-0-380-79519-2. ISBN 978-1-56751-188-8. Lewis, Charles; Allison, Bill; the Center for Public Integrity (2001)

In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of. .

In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic creatures. Green and The Center for Public Integrity reveal which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplus" animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting them into the private pet trade. We're taken to exotic-animal auctions, where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious dealers, hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans masquerading as conservationists.

In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those . Green and The centre for Public Integrity reveal which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplus" animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting them into the private pet trade.

Animal Underworld book. Green and The Center for Public Integrity reveal which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplu A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic creatures.

In Animal Underworld, Alan Green and The Center for Public Integrity offer the definitive expose of the sleazy, sometimes illegal trade in exotic - even endangered - species. The book takes us to exotic-animal auctions, where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious dealers, hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans masquerading as conservationists

1999, Public Affairs (Perseus Book Group), New York, NY. xxix + 286 pp. illustrated

1999, Public Affairs (Perseus Book Group), New York, NY. illustrated. With support from the Center for Public Integrity and funding from the Geraldine Dodge Foundation, journalist Alan Green takes his readers on a fascinating sojourn through the market for exotic animals in the United States. He unravels egregious excesses of the pet, trophy, and medicinal markets and explores the general commercialization of wildlife.

A vast and previously undisclosed underground economy exists in the United States. The products bought and sold: animals. In Animal Underworld, veteran investigative journalist Alan Green exposes the sleazy, sometimes illegal web of those who trade in rare and exotic creatures. Green and The Center for Public Integrity reveal which American zoos and amusement parks dump their "surplus" animals on the middlemen adept at secretly redirecting them into the private pet trade. We're taken to exotic-animal auctions, where the anonymous high bidders are often notorious dealers, hunting-ranch proprietors, and profit-minded charlatans masquerading as conservationists. We visit some of the nation's most prestigious universities and research laboratories, whose diseased monkeys are "laundered" through this same network of breeders and dealers until they finally reach the homes of unsuspecting pet owners. And we meet the men and women who make their living by skirting through loopholes in the law, or by ignoring the law altogether. For anyone who cares about animals; for pet owners, zoo-goers, wildlife conservationists, and animal welfare advocates, Animal Underworld is gripping, shocking reading.
Reviews about Animal Underworld (7):
Vuzahn
The main problem with this book is that it was written by a reporter and so it reads like a 300 page newspaper article. These types of books tend to be best written with some narrative or single story that ties each of the chapters together. That being said, the content of the book is pretty shocking. The best way to describe it is in terms of a controversy that is making its way through the art world. University libraries and non-profit museums who have been bequeathed paintings by rich donors are having financial trouble and selling works that were given to them out of generosity and a desire for the public to have access to the pieces. The children of the donors are finding out after the fact that the pieces are ending up back in private hands or that the museum is making millions of dollars in profit off their donation. Well, zoos do the same thing but worse. Baby giraffes and gorillas sell tickets and bring in visitors their first few years of life but as they mature they become liabilities and weaker draws. Zoos donate (launder) them to animal "sanctuaries" who sell them for canned hunts or to private owners. Or the state will seize a tiger from some freak's apartment in Harlem and give it to what they think is a rescue organization only to check back a year later and find no trace of it. In fact, there is a newspaper called Animal Finders Guide that I get where you can actually buy these animals - everything from tigers, bears, lions, apes - that have been laundered through private dealers and auctions and can't be traced.

It is a weird subject to be into but there is something there. All the books I've read on it have been interesting but never completely the whole story. For instance, authors like this one make a special point to criticize roadside animal attractions or exotic exhibits in malls or schools. The evidence they use is how the animal must feel, how it's twisted or barbaric. They never look at why people seem to be attracted to it - why we've been doing this to bears and tigers and elephants since before the Romans. What is it that draws people to captive, wild animals? Is there something to be said for this experience? That a child in in 15th century The Medici Giraffe or a Tiger Truck Stop in Louisiana both felt the same awe and fear and surprise. I think there is and I wish someone would figure it out.
Urtte
This book is really a reality test on the cruelty and indifference of humans towards animals that no longer serve a purpose. i guess i always suspected that the road side operator was less about conservation and more about exploitation however how so called accredited/professional zoos are part of an animals slow road to obscurity in a back yard zoo or worse is really what disturbed me the most. good read thou the layers of facts can at time be confusing and dilute the central message.
Butius
good book
Mojar
This book is full of lies. All of the terrible story's and accusations are either full out lies or extreme fabrications designed to pull at your heart strings. There is no proof to any of it. Do not buy this book!!!!
Windworker
There is no doubt that there is a huge, lucrative, underground trade in exotics, and that many of the people involved in it are unethical scumbags. Of course, not ALL individuals who own exotic pets are nasty: some of them are conscientious and care enough to be well-informed about the species they choose to own.

But the author of this book provides an important service to the public. Green sheds light into the dark corners of the exotics business, part of which involves shuffling zoo and research animals to canned hunt facilities or roadside petting zoos. It all works through middlemen who assure legitimate keepers that their surplus animals are going to qualified handlers, when in fact they are often laundered through pet auctions or given to animal collectors who abandon them at the first sign of difficult behavior or ill health.
Take monkeys and apes. They're cute and smart, but mishandling can create a strong, deranged primate that will pose very real risks to anyone not familiar with their needs. Also, they harbor all kinds of diseases that are a direct threat to public health, and some that haven't jumped the species barrier yet but, in the future, may do so. Hardly any sanctuaries exist that can care for them once they are no longer needed for research or public display. What should we, as a society that frowns on animal cruelty, do for them?
Anyone who is interested in exotics, animal-based research, or even visiting the zoo should read this book. Yes, Green almost exclusively discusses the creepy side of the issue. But he also describes some very ethically-run sancutaries and some individuals in the zoo and research sectors who truly care for their charges' welfare.
As for owning exotic pets, I personally think there are some people who actually are qualified to do so. Who decides those qualifications? That's another issue. Also, "exotics" include everything from hedgehogs and sugar gliders to tigers and the great apes. I've owned the former two, and found them to be sweet little companion animals. (But if someone offered me a giraffe, I'm afraid I would have to decline.) Not all exotics are totally inappropriate for all people. But some exotics are totally inappropriate for most people.
I do think that certain surplus zoo animals should be euthanized rather than forced to live out their remaining years in misery. I also think that the surplus itself should be examined: why aren't certain species more aggressively sterilized? And, I think all zoo and research animals should be microchipped so that they can be tracked once they leave their original home.

Green isn't afraid to name names and cite specific examples of cruelty. I know there are readers who are angry about what he wrote, and dispute his findings, but they haven't countered with any specifics that undermine this book. If any of his critics can prove that the incidents Green discusses didn't happen, then I'd like to hear about it.

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