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was this zoo a "major" zoo or a little one? There's a little zoo I've got rattling around in my head but I can't get the name out. Southport and Birmingham are at the front but I don't know if either of those make any sort of sense.
The zoo in question was, most definitely, not a major zoo; neither of the two zoos that you mentioned in your last post are correct.
hmm, I'm almost certain I know the zoo - but I can't find it in my brain. It was a zoo which was really an importer premises, yes? A little place with lots of elephants passing through...
Brighton Aquarium perchance?
I believe that there were a number of elephants there....
No, not Brighton Aquarium.
No it's not Cheltenham; I think that this zoo closed before London Zoo received its first hippo.
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How about Bristol zoo? The zoo is one of the oldest in UK.
No Bristol Zoo is not correct. (You're right, of course, that Bristol is one of the oldest in the UK but, perhaps surprisingly, I don't think Bristol has ever had common hippos.)
No, Liverpool is not the answer.
I'll put my head on the block here and say i don't think that Edinburgh has ever kept a common hippo at the zoo
Water Dragon
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Woburn?
I'll put my head on the block here and say i don't think that Edinburgh has ever kept a common hippo at the zoo
I'm sure you're right; Edinburgh hasn't had a common hippo. I made a similar comment a few posts ago.
No not Woburn.
Water Dragon
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Coventry?
No, not Coventry.
The hippo in question arrived in the UK about a century before Coventry Zoo opened.
Water Dragon
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Plymouth?
No, again, Plymouth Zoo opened about a century after this hippo arrived in the UK.
You need to think of zoos that were operating in the nineteenth century.
I was thinking that it may have been The Exeter Exchange but I am pretty sure that closed before the date mentioned.
And I just want to double check that we aren't allowed to use any resources to check we're right? It has to come from our own zoo based knowledge?
And I just want to double check that we aren't allowed to use any resources to check we're right? It has to come from our own zoo based knowledge?
No, it wasn't the Exeter 'Change.
I set this question but didn't devise this quiz and I have absolutely no idea what the rules are.