<DIV>With friendly facts, funny pictures, and animals galore, WHAT'S NEW? THE ZOO! is history to roar for!<br><br><br><br><br>Did you know . . .<br><br>* The first zoo was established forty-three hundred years ago in present-day Iraq?<br>* Aztec King Moctezuma II had such an incredible collection of animals that it took six hundred men and women to care for them?<br>* Zoos were crucial in the development of scientific theories of classification and evolution?<br>* Fifty buffalo passed through Grand Central Station in 1907 on their way to the Bronx Zoo?<br><br>Kathleen Krull and Marcellus Hall bring jazzy style and a globe-trotting eye to our millennia-long history of keeping animals -- and the ways animals have changed us in turn.</div>