noun
definition
A collection of live wild animals on exhibition; the enclosure where they are kept.
definition
A diverse or miscellaneous group.
Examples of menageries in a Sentence
These monkeys are very commonly seen in menageries.
The Seriema, owing to its long legs and neck, stands some two feet or more in height, and in menageries bears itself with a stately deportment.
Considering the extent of their materials, which was limited to the bodies of such animals as they could obtain from dealers and the several menageries that then existed in or near London, the progress made in what has since proved to be the right direction is very wonderful.
The black rhinoceros is more rarely seen in menageries in Europe than either of the Asiatic species, but one lived in the gardens of the London Zoological Society from 1868-1891.
In later times royal persons and great feudal magnates frequently kept menageries of wild animals, aviaries and aquaria, and it is from these that modern public Gardens have taken their origin.
A minor problem in menageries is injudicious feeding by visitors.
Although the diana monkey is commonly seen in menageries, little is known of its habits in the wild state.
Wolverhampton had been visited by many famous Victorian circuses and menageries but had never seen anything on this scale.
But as menageries are supported for the public and in most cases by the public, such a site is impractical, and if the soil, drainage and exposure are reasonably good, experience shows that a thriving collection may be maintained in the immediate vicinity of large towns.