menageries in English
noun
1
a collection of wild animals kept in captivity for exhibition.
He is a ‘country boy at heart’, a farmer's son from just outside the Lanarkshire town, who grew up among a bizarre menagerie of animals that he refers to as ‘a crazy sort of petting zoo’ and that include two ostriches.
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1. 19 The difference becomes crucially important when animals are brought into captivity, as in zoos or menageries.
2. The existence of a “lions’ pit” in Babylon is supported by the testimony of ancient inscriptions showing that Oriental rulers frequently had menageries of wild animals.