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Max Pearson presents a collection of this week\u2019s Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service.

We\u2019re going wild for animals this week. We find out how the Ibadan Zoo became one of Nigeria\u2019s biggest tourist attractions during the 1970s. Our guest Harriet Ritvo, professor of history at MIT, looks back across the centuries to reveal the fascination that humans have always had for animals. And more on the environmental campaigner who became known as Lady Tarzan for her fight against illegal logging in the forests of India.

Plus, we hear from a journalist tortured in Iran's notorious Evin Prison in the wake of the 2009 protests against the Islamic regime. Also, why hundreds of thousands of Moroccans were ordered into the Spanish Sahara by their king. And finally, more on the Bolivian president who went on hunger strike to try to save his country.

Contributors:\nPeaches Golding - wife of zoologist Bob Golding\nProfessor Harriet Ritvo \u2013 professor of history at MIT\nMarcela Siles - daughter of former Bolivian president Hern\xe1n Siles Zuazo\nSeddik Maaninou - TV cameraman \nFrancis Gillies \u2013 North Africa expert\nMaziar Bahari - journalist\nJamuna Tudu \u2013 environmentalist nicknamed \u2018Lady Tarzan\u2019

(Photo: Imade the gorilla at Ibadan Zoo. Credit: bobgolding.co.uk)