Menagerie

In Tom's new novel, extraterrestrials pursue the ambitious goal of presenting all the life forms in the galaxy in a single vast menagerie. Individual humans are also carried off for this purpose and -- due to the enormous diversity of species -- thrown together with the apes of the planet Earth, without distinction. John found that highly offensive.

I have orange and grey tabby-cats in my menagerie.

Well, he certainly must have strained himself to get this menagerie together.

The Glen Echo carousel is called a "menagerie carousel" because it is made up of many different kinds of animals. The animals stand in three concentric rings with the "romance" side, the more highly-carved and decorated side facing out, and the "plain" side facing in.

To the horror of his guests, Tom would let a tame lion from his menagerie roam freely during banquets.

In Sacramento a crazed woman opened the cages of a circus menagerie for fear the animals might starve to death, and had been mauled by a lioness.

[Brigitte] Bardot, the stunning, desirable beauty who once stood for sexual freedom for women, spent the latter part of her life at her home near Saint Tropez with her husband and a menagerie of pets.