Iowa State University Press, 1972,Good condition trade paperback, 122 pages, photos, some pages discolored at bottom, and some page wrinkling, inscribed to the late Walter King, an elephant trainer and owner of Animaland, an animal park in St. Clair County, Michigan."Bob Elgin had his back broken by a butting ram, had fingers chewed off by a chimpanzee and was bitten more than once by cobras. Along the way, he saved the Des Moines Children's Zoo. Mr. Elgin, ....., was a public relations man and falconry enthusiast when he was hired in 1966 as director of a struggling little zoo with about 200 animals and ramshackle facilities. "It was a terrible, little zoo, horrible," Mr. Elgin told the Des Moines Register in 2006."(WSJ) With a flair for wacky publicity, he saved the zoo and maintained it until eventually the voters passed a millage to establish a larger, better funded one.