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Hi all, I am working on starting a project looking in to how education in zoos has developed since the 19th centuary to becoming a major part of a zoos daily life. The questions I am hoping to answer are, When did it start becoming important, was it always important, how was it implamented in...

Do we need a new ZooChat forum dedicated to zoo history? Not to memorabilia, which are the products, but a place where we can chat about the lives of the animals, the issues swirling around zoos in the past, and how the zoos evolved? I write a blog, Chimp Trainer's Daughter, and it gets...

Greetings The Bartlett Society's Zoo History website is back. :) 70 days ago our website was taken down due to circumstance beyond our control. Rather than simply find a new host we seized the opportunity to perform a redesign. The new site is based upon the Google Sites framework...

Here's an odd story - captive animal archaeology is a fairly specialised field! A group from UW Trinity St David are digging to try to find the remains of an elephant from Batty's Travelling Menageries that was supposedly killed by contaminated drinking water in 1848. They freely admit it is...

More fun from the past: Archive Viewer | Popular Science

Does anyone have any memories of the chimp shows about 50 years ago? My dad was a chimp trainer at the Detroit Zoo in the 1940s and 50s. Author Shawn Thompson wrote about our family and the chimps in his blog, the intimate ape: A daughter's dark tale of abuse at the zoo chimp show: how kids...

My dad was a chimp trainer at the Detroit Zoo in the 1940s and 50s. Author Shawn Thompson wrote about our family and the chimps in his blog, Intimate Ape. The reaction was so supportive, I've decided to start my own blog, Chimp Trainer's Daughter. Please stop by and share your thoughts!

An Illustrated History of Bristol Zoo Gardens will be published on May 7th 2011. Welcome to Bristol Zoo's WoW! 175 | Bristol Zoo

Following a second visit to Chiang Mai Night Safari I have pulled the following article together: Chiang Mai Night Safari

For a historical review on lost dolphinariums in Belgium and Luxemburg I’m trying to find as much information as possible about their history, animals, the owners and staff, the building, number of visitors, exceptional events (such as births, …), the reason why and when the dolphinarium closed...

Old elephant house, is now an elephant history building Elephant photos from the 1970's taken from slides

Elephant ride at adelaide zoo, current site on mandrills i beleive Elephant photos from the 1970's taken from slides

Entrance of the Antwerp Zoo (1843).

In the 70 years Auckland Zoo exhibited Polar Bears, this cub Chimo was the only one to survive to adulthood... This photo is from the 1960s and shows him with his mother Natasha... This photo was sourced from the book: A Tiger by the Tail by Derek Wood...

This exhibit was one of the originals at the zoo... Note the low wall which at least one Polar Bear escaped out of and was shot... This photo was sourced from the book: A Tiger by the Tail by Derek Wood...

In 1986 the Chinese Government offered Australia a temporary loan of two Giant Panda's for their 1988 bi-centenary... These Panda's spent three months in Melbourne Zoo and three at Taronga Zoo before coming to Auckland in October 1988 for a final three month stay... A new enclosure was...

This photo is an aerial view from the late 1970's... At the top right you can see the recently completed expansion south into Western Springs park... The bottom middle is now home to wallabies and emu... The pit to the right and above has been remodelled twice and is now home to the female...

Malini arrived at the Zoo in August 1961 and this photo was probably taken around that time... She was a gift from the Indian Government... She was brought over as a companion to Jamuna who died less than three years later... This photo was sourced from the book: A Tiger by the Tail by Derek...

This is one of the original exhibits at the zoo... It was open for approximately 70 years and in that time only 1 cub survived to adulthood... Note the low fence which at least one bear escaped out of and was shot... It was later raised... One patron was also talked out of jumping into the...

This photo (probably taken in the early 1920's) is of Jamuna (aka. Jumuna), probably the most famous and loved of any of Auckland Zoo's animals... Jamuna came from India to the zoo in 1923 and died in 1964 of range of ailments including foot problems... She was approximately 50 years old...