This is the historic Stork and Ostrich House. This side is also used as summer housing for the pygmy hippos; the other side is the African Bird Safari.
This is the historic Stork and Ostrich House. This side is also used as summer housing for the pygmy hippos; the other side is the African Bird Safari.
it suprises me that ZSL has not yet done something with this area of land-a flat, undeveloped portion of ground with only one heritage structure....
in a perfect world a huge glass roof would stretch from the stork house right over to where eagles and owls currently are...and the whole thing would become a tropical islands precinct with anoa, malayan tapir, sulawesi macaques, hornbills and herpes in gigantic indoor habitats linked to nearby enclosures for komodo dragons and orang (in the casson).
dreaming now
No that was on the site of the Clore Pavillion (the original elephant and rhino house before the Casson).
This has been a stork and ostrich house for a long time I think (although these birds have been moved out and one half of the outdoor areas is for anoa and the other half is a walk-through aviary)
Just looked up the pic of the Sumat rhino, deffinately in this house.
And I think there was a house for elephants before the one on the site of the casson pavillion, it had an iron fence. This was years ago (as in 1920's).
Just looked up the pic of the Sumat rhino, deffinately in this house.
And I think there was a house for elephants before the one on the site of the casson pavillion, it had an iron fence. This was years ago (as in 1920's).
According to the Royal Comission of the historical monuments of england for the buildings of london zoo, the elephant and rhino house on the site of the clore pavillion was there in 1893 and there was a paddock on the site of the stork house.
In 1929, the elephant/rhino house was still standing, but the stork house had been built. The antelope house was on the site of the Casson.
In 1991, the original ele/rhino house had been replaced by the Clore, the antelope house had been replaced by the Casson and the stork/ostrich house was still standing.
Rhinos were never kept on the site of the stork house, whilst that house was in existance and elephants only lived on the Casson site once the Casson had been built.
