Automobiles fundamentally shifted the ways in which visitors to animal attractions experienced the creatures on display before their eyes.
An invasive mollusk called the shipworm (Teredo navalis) attacked coastal dikes in the Netherlands in the 1730s, leading to changes in the design of dikes.
American equines shipped to the South African War suffered conditions like those on slave ships in the transatlantic slave trade.
In 1966, a stray beluga whale swimming up and down the polluted Lower Rhine caught the media’s attention in West Germany.
