History Main / PeopleZoo

* In ''La debauche'', an unemployed man puts himself in a cage of a zoo. His reason for doing this are not known before [[spoler: his death.]]

** And in another episode there was Bully Island, though the bullies didn't speak or really act human, more like [[JurassicPark dinosaurs]].

* ''StarTrek'' did this a couple of times.
** ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'': "The Cage/The Menagerie"

* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder The Eye of the Beholder]]"

* In the film version of ''{{Mars Attacks}}!'', the Martians include a man in a clown costume (apparently they believe that clowns are animals) among the numerous specimens they have collected from Earth. They also capture a female newscaster and graft her head onto the body of her dog.
* Another Disney film, ''{{Flight of the Navigator}}''.

* The book ''PlanetOfTheApes'' has a zoo with a display of people "in their natural habitat". The scientist of the group from Earth is in this display, and has regressed by the time we see him.
** He had brain damage, and the apes had given him a lobotomy to save his life, not realizing that he had cognitive functions that would be damaged by such a crude operation.
* The main character in ''SlaughterhouseFive'' gets put into one of these (together with a porn star) by the Tralfamadorians.
* In the IsaacAsimov story ''Breeds There A Man?'', Earth is implied to be a laboratory experiment by aliens, with mental controls in place to prevent us from developing interstellar travel. Then humans evolve around the mental blocks ...

* ''StarTrek'' did this a couple of times.

* This is why [[BigBad Tomator]] kidnapped '''TheLostVikings'''.

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', the humans (or are they very humanlike goblins?) are seen as something in-between true intelligent life and animals, see [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=304 here]] (warning: mildly graphic violence). [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1354 Later, the places are reversed, as the local king orders the arrest of all creatures of elven descent]] to [[spoiler:[[BloodBath bathe in their blood]]]].

* Occurred in the episode "A Zoo Out There" of ''BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''.
** Interestingly, two of the aliens running the human zoo in ''Buzz Lightyear'' were voiced by Jonathan Harris and Billy Mumy of ''Lost in Space''. A stealth ActorAllusion / ShoutOut?

* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "[[http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/The_Eye_of_the_Beholder The Eye of the Beholder]]"

* In ancient Rome, this was just a normal day at the Colosseum.
* A pygmy named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ota_Benga#Bronx_Zoo Ota Benga]] was kept in the Bronx Zoo in 1906.
** Many zoos in Europe had "authentic Negro villages" built in them during the 19th century. The people in them were usually at least nominally volunteer and were paid (poorly), but needless to say, it was a quite humiliating practice.

* StarTrek did this a couple of times.

* ''"The Main Man"'' from ''SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' involved an intergalactic collector that liked to acquire the [[LastOfHisKind last of any species]] in the entire universe. While he included beasts in his collection, he also ended up collecting Superman and Lobo as they were the last known Kryptonian and Czarnian, respectively. Of course that idea didn't end well for him.

* ''Captain Planet'' featured an episode where an alien came to incorporate the Planeteers into a collection of doomed species from across the galaxy. Fitting with the series' theme, he thought mankind, treating the Earth as they were, were doomed to extinction.

-->So if you come visit, just howl, honk, or moo
-->And try to pretend you’re an animal, too.
-->‘Cause if you’re a person, they’ll throw you into
-->Cage Two of the zoo here in Animaloo.

* ''TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'' episode "The Robot of Riga". Aliens kidnap Jimmy Olson and Lois Lane and put them in a cage on their home planet Riga.

* In the Issac Asimov story ''Breeds There A Man?'', Earth is implied to be a laboratory experiment by aliens, with mental controls in place to prevent us from developing interstellar travel. Then humans evolve around the mental blocks ...

* ''[[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/monkeys/704_4_108.jpg Strange Adventures]] #108 in the DCUniverse.

* [[http://superdickery.com/images/stories/monkeys/704_4_108.jpg ''Strange Adventures'' #108]] in the DCUniverse.

* MarvelComics' The Collector did this upon occasion.

* ''TheTwilightZone'' TOS episodes "People Are Alike All Over" and "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby".

* ''StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "The Eye of the Beholder"

* In ''{{Drowtales}}'', the humans (or are they very humanlike goblins?) are seen as something in-between true intelligent life and animals, see [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=304 here]] (warning: mildly graphic violence). [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?id=1354 Later, the places are reversed, as the local king orders the arrest of all creatures of elven descent]] to [[spoiler:play Elizabeth Bathory with them]].

* The ''TwilightZone'' episodes [[spoiler:People Are Alike All Over]]
** And [[spoiler:Hocus Pocus and Frisbee]]

* In ''StarControl 2'' Admiral ZEX have this (and it's a plot point).

ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, a zoo created by some alien race or just a plain crazy person that puts live specimens of humans or other intelligent life on display. This is one of the more likely places you'll go if the EgomaniacHunter doesn't kill you after TheMostDangerousGame.

!!Examples

* The Denver Zoo did this once, presumably using volunteers working for charity on pledges. They got complaints from parents and animal rights groups alike. OrSoIHeard.