Alamosa Public Library

Johnny goes hunting for a bearskin to hang on his family's barn and returns with a small bundle of trouble

Explores the concept of keeping wild creatures in captivity.

A baby dolphin that has been bitten by a shark and rescued by two fishermen begins a life of captivity in a salt-water sea show where she performs tricks.

Gramp Bender is temporarily caring for wild animals at the Bed and Biscuit animal boardinghouse. All the animals want to go home. Can Ernest, the capable mini-pig, help them to behave.

"Drawing on accounts from India to Africa and from California to Tennessee, as well as on research in neuroscience, psychology, and animal behavior, G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds, emotions, and lives of elephants. Wars, starvation, mass culls, poaching, and habitat loss have reduced elephant numbers from more than ten million to a few hundred thousand, leaving orphans bereft of the elders who would normally mentor them. As a consequence, traumatized...