Topic Description: Exotic Animals

"EXOTIC ANIMALS" includes all references to exotic or rare animals: menageries and "seragli" of live animals; specimens preserved as natural curiosities; descriptions and depictions of animals in foreign lands; rare animals imported for staged hunts.

Elaborate staged hunts are also indexed under "THEATER AND FESTIVAL" and "GAMES, TOYS AND SPORT". Many references to "EXOTIC ANIMALS" are cross-indexed under "NATURAL SCIENCES".

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