the human zoo

• desmond morris'in, 'şehir' tanımı. şehir insanıyla, esaret altında tutulan hayvanlar arasındaki benzerliğe parmak basan (ve de acıtan) bir kitap.
  
  "under natural conditions wild animals do not mutilate themselves, masturbate, attack their offspring, develop stomach ulcers, become fetishists, suffer from obesity, form homosexual pair-bonds. yet confined in the unnatural conditions of captivity, they exhibit just such neurotic behaviour patterns common to urban man caged in his crowded cities. the term 'concrete jungle' coined by man to describe his teeming environment is, therefore, an inaccurate one: it is a human zoo."