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Originally Posted by Dalin
Ha. Yeah, but more of a stasis zoo. (I can't come up with the right pun.) Old-school Natural History Museum dioramas rather than dynamic enclosures. Feeding and cleaning all those bodies isn't its purview.
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Shades of Dean Ing's entry in the Man-Kzin wars series,
Cathouse/"Briar Patch". The human protagonist is dumped on a desolate planet that has a bunch of enclosures, each mimicking the environment of a planet with a sapient species (Earth and Kzin being the relevant ones). The Earth enclosure proves to be empty, but he eventually discovers a bunch of Ice age critters in stasis, including neanderthals. Later a stranded kzin goes to the other one and releases their samples. I don't beleive it was ever specified who put them there or why.