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I thought the area behind the Mappins- now the Hospital/Admin buildings etc was the site of Monkey Hill? Perhaps there were other buildings also.

Incidentally, further to our previous discussions on the origin of the Asian female 'Lakshmi', I think this is her as this is still a youngish elephant and so not 'Rusty' the older female.

The three Elephants from here that transferred into the Casson being 'Dicksie'(African) and 'Rusty' and 'Lakshmi'(Asian).

Pertinax said:

I thought the area behind the Mappins- now the Hospital/Admin buildings etc was the site of Monkey Hill? Perhaps there were other buildings also.

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Indeed, Monkey Hill was behind the Mappin Terraces, but there were other buildings there too.

Pertinax said:

The three Elephants from here that transferred into the Casson being 'Dicksie'(African) and 'Rusty' and 'Lakshmi'(Asian).

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And a fourth, the African elephant “Toto”.

i have map saved somewhere on my laptop which states african elephants lived behind the mappins, next to monkey hill?, i will have to look

Tim May said:

And a fourth, the African elephant “Toto”.

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i remember the name. Was she younger than Dicksie and before Pole Pole?

Pertinax said:

i remember the name. Was she younger than Dicksie and before Pole Pole?

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Yes, that’s right; ‘Toto’ arrived in 1962 and died in 1980.

here is the map i was talking about

Its quite difficult to date this one, the latest date it reffers to is 1943 (''The lion 'rota' was presented in 1943 by the zoo to Mr Churchill'') I think it probably is from the late 40s to the mid 50s ? When did Rota die ?

Scrap that this is post 1958, it says they have pandas.

As the Snowdon aviary is not shown this would suggest pre 1964 for the map

It is possible that between those dates they brought together the two species if they were only holding one african elephant ?

yoyopop! #023: London Zoo 1965
1965 asian and african together