backstage area where the circus animals are kept
A collection of animals for usually private but also public display with only recreation or amusement as its purpose.
a collection of live animals for study or display
the facility where wild animals are housed for exhibition
A collection of wild and exotic animals. The idea appeared in Western Asia in ancient times and was common until the nineteenth century. The Wilhelmina in Stuttgart is still managed as a combined botanical garden and zoo. Example 1
Menagerie is the term for a historical form of keeping wild and exotic animals in human captivity and therefore a predecessor of the modern zoological garden. The term was foremost used in seventeenth century France originally for the management of the household or domestic stock, but later primarily for an aristocratic or royal animal collection. The Encyclopédie Méthodique of 1782 defines a menagerie as an "établissement de luxe et de curiosité."