Web exclusive: The importance of looking

Cultural historian Dr. Hilda Kean outlines how animal and human interaction transformed from shared space to confined zoo like environments.

15 November 2013

2 minutes

This clip is from

Timeshift—Series 13, A Day at the Zoo

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