Autobiography of Matthew Scott, Jumbo's Keeper; Also Jumbo's Biography, by the same Author

The author offers a first-person memoir of his life working with birds and exotic animals, beginning with childhood duties in a private menagerie and progressing to long service in a public zoological garden. He describes practical lessons in feeding, breeding, and caring for a range of species, offers recollections of daily routines and travel, and recounts his close relationship with a famous elephant companion. Interwoven are reflections on animal behavior, moral advice drawn from experience, and accounts of public exhibitions and encounters that shaped his career.