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Burke, A. (2016). ZooTube: Streaming Animal Life. In: Lawrence, M., Lury, K. (eds) The Zoo and Screen Media. Screening Spaces. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53561-0_4

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