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I created this to learn more about Perth zoo's past and to teach others as well because Perth Zoo doesn't usually like to share their past for some reason, anyway.... any info, videos or pictures help

Photo taken by my parents in 1980. The old outdoor enclosure of the lions. We had a lot of big cats (lions, tigers, panthers/leopards). They demolished the house and now we only have lions. But that's absolutely fine :)

A scanned photo, which was taken by my parents in 1980. It's the rock/enclosure, where nowadays the Snow Leopards and the Crab-eating Macaques live. Sorry, but I don't have a clue, what these goats (?) are called.

Scanned photo, taken by my parents in 1980. As a kid it was nice to see a Polar Bear. But as an adult, seeing this photo, I have to say it was good, that they used the space for the outdoor enclosures of the Geigy house (apes)/the playground.

The main argument in support of technical names is of course their stability compared to common names, but this is often overly exaggerated by books on natural history. In reality, splits, lumps and preference can make old and trusted names invalid. I was recently looking through some documents...

Today is a very special day everyone. On this day, 57 years ago, the approximately eight-year old bonobo female Margrit arrived in Frankfurt Zoo as a donation from a sailor who had kept her as a pet for some years. She promptly joined the established group at Frankfurt which at the time...

Indian rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis)

Old bird building at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium.

These types of artificial rocks could be found in a lot of enclosures in the old days of the zoo. These red rocks were mainly used for smaller enclosures for racoons, pelicans etc, but also a couple of larger ones for camels, gaur and watussi. Now almost all enclosures in this style have...

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...