人类动物园 (1969)

《人类动物园》（The Human Zoo）是英国动物学家德斯蒙德·莫利斯继《裸猿》之后，于1969年发表的著作。他这两本著作都是审视人类的生物性如何塑造当代世界文化的特性。

《人类动物园》审视文明社会－尤其城市－的本质。莫利斯将一个城市的人类居民和一个动物园的动物居民作比较：两者皆得到其生存所需，但代价是要居住在一个非自然的环境。城市中的人类与及动物园中的动物同样得到食物、居所及颇多的休闲时间，但两者都要住在一个非自然的环境、在发展健康的社会关系上似乎都出现困难、两者都需忍受寂寞和无聊、都是要生活在有限的空间里。这本书说明城市和动物园居民如何创造出处理这些问题的方法，以及他们未能处理这些问题时的后果。

从这个角度来看，莫利斯审视了为什么文明社会会是这样子的。他解释了文明社会中最好的和最差的特点，他审视了文明社会的伟大成就、自然科学和人民科学上的崇高探索，也审视了这同一社会中如战争、奴隶、强奸等等的可怕行为。这本著作和他较早之前的《裸猿》都是早期社会生物学领域中的作品。

The Human Zoo is a book written by the British zoologist Desmond Morris, published in 1969. It is a follow-up to his earlier book The Naked Ape; both books examine how the biological nature of the human species has shaped the character of the cultures of the contemporary world.

The Human Zoo examines the nature of civilised society, especially in the cities. Morris compares the human inhabitants of a city to the animal inhabitants of a zoo, which have their survival needs provided for, but at the cost of living in an unnatural environment. Humans in their cities, and animals in their zoos, both have food and shelter provided for them, and have considerable free time on their hands. But they have to live in an unnatural environment, and are both likely to have problems in developing healthy social relationships, both are liable to suffer from isolation and boredom, and both live in a limited amount of physical space. The book explains how the inhabitants of cities and zoos have invented ways to deal with these problems, and the consequences that follow when they fail at dealing with them.

From this point of view, Morris examines why civilised society is the way it is. He offers explanations of the best and the worst features of civilised society. He examines the magnificent achievements of civilised society, the sublime explorations that make up science and the humanities, as well as the horrible behaviours of this same society such as war, slavery and rape. This book, and Morris's earlier book The Naked Ape, are two of the early works in the field of sociobiology, which have both contributed much to contemporary understandings of society.