Monkeys on the interstate

by Jack Hanna

Jack Hanna braved tigers, white rhinos, a plane ride with a jaguar, mountain gorillas. and David Letterman to become America’s favorite zoo-keeper, and now in his long awaited book, he tells the wild, wise, and moving story of a life literally surrounded by animals. No one loves animals the way Jack Hanna does. When he was a boy in Knoxville, Jack raised bluegills in the bathtub, and bought exotic animals through the mail. Soon he was living in a menagerie, and only when he tried to turn the barn into an elephant house did his family draw the line. In college--where his minature donkey became the school’s mascot--no one understood wny a football-playing bsiness major wanted to be a zoo director, but Jack stuck to his guns. After startiong a pet shop and petting zoo, working for a wildlife adventure outfit, and directing a small florida zoo, Jack came to the rescue of the crumbling Columbus Zoo in 1978. Since then his incredible energy and love of animals have turned the zoo into an int