I am currently adding the non-English lit to my introduction and I am unsure about one word for the German literature. Am I using "haltung" correctly?

"Die Haltung exotischer Wildtiere im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert"

Is "Haltung" better here as the English "presence" or "place" - the distinction between the two is small but subtle...any help...

"The place of exotic wild-animals in the eighteenth and nineteenth century"

Hmm I know 'kaninchen' is a rabbit?

Not much help - sorry.

ich habe ein kaninchen, don't think that's the right spelling either. (tree) tannenbaum anyone?

Danke! ;)

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moonblue is right saying that Haltung refers to the keeping of animals (me being native speaker)

Ah, that makes sense now. Thank you. I have had to read some German sec lit on exotic animal collections - and I found that most of it was published after a research project called "Die Haltung exotischer Wildtiere im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert" - I see I was being quite literal in my translation (my German is not that good) but "haltung" as "keeping" makes a lot more sense!

:)