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First Raccoon

From Vanishing Treasures: A Bestiary of Extraordinary Endangered Creatures, which will be published this month by Doubleday. Rebecca was an unusual White House inhabitant for two reasons. The first was…

Double zoo

by Roland Barthes,Translated by Andrew Brown,

Jaguar, Cincinnati, Ohio

by Volker Seding,

Sleeping lion, Jacksonville, Florida

by Volker Seding,

Where have all the animals gone? The lamentable extinction of zoos

by Charles Siebert,

Supply-side economics goes to the zoo

by Jean-Claude Suarès,

It's dog eat dog among the animals in Cairo

Wraparound

by Harper’s Staff,

Park Here for the Python

by Thomas M. Carnegie, Jr.,

Editor’s drawer

Drawn by R. Jerome Hill,

At the zoo

Drawn by Chester Gaude,

A bit of un-natural history