menagerie

form of keeping common and exotic animals in captivity that preceded the modern zoological garden
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menagerie

Summary

menagerie ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,422 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • menagerie was followed by zoo[2].
  • menagerie is a type of zoo[3].
  • menagerie's Commons category is recorded as Menageries[4].
  • menagerie's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Menageries[5].
  • menagerie's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[6].
  • menagerie's different from is recorded as The Menagerie[7].

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Definition and Type

menagerie is a type of zoo[3].

Influence

Things named for menagerie include Žvėrynas[8], a neighborhood of Vilnius[9], in Lithuania[10].

Why It Matters

menagerie ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (1,422 views/month).[1] menagerie has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[11] menagerie is known by 21 alternative names across languages and contexts.[12]

Entities named for menagerie include Žvėrynas[8], a neighborhood of Vilnius[9], in Lithuania[10].

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Susmuffin · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['als', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'hr', 'id', 'io', 'it', 'ko',
    Harper's tag → menageries
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ [[Property:P13772]]: menageries, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289948423|menageries (#289948423)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper's tag]] #m"
  2. 19w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-27 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → zoo
    Different from → The Menagerie
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|2 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007563001205171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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