Wolves at London Zoo?

[Anthony Lawrence]

Hello folks - it's been wonderful to read through the various posts and discussions here.
I have two questions:
1) were there wolves at the original London Zoo at Regent's park?
2) could someone kindly point me in the direction of a good resource or book on how animals were first collected and brought to London Zoo?

Many thanks and all good things

Anthony

 

[Pastiche]

Hey there! While I cannot answer the second question, Regents park did not have wolves that I can remember however Whipsnade did have Timber wolves

 

[Tim May]

Hello folks - it's been wonderful to read through the various posts and discussions here.
I have two questions:
1) were there wolves at the original London Zoo at Regent's park?
2) could someone kindly point me in the direction of a good resource or book on how animals were firs

Hello folks - it's been wonderful to read through the various posts and discussions here.
I have two questions:
1) were there wolves at the original London Zoo at Regent's park?
2) could someone kindly point me in the direction of a good resource or book on how animals were first collected and brought to London Zoo?

Many thanks and all good things

Anthony

t collected and brought to London Zoo?

Many thanks and all good things

Anthony

(1) Yes, wolves have been kept in London Zoo in Regent’s Park, although there are none there currently.
(2) Numerous books have been published about the history of London Zoo. If you're interested in a list of all the species kept at the zoo, the following three volume work is extremely useful:--
List of the Vertebrated Animals Exhibited in the Gardens of the Zoological Society of London 1828 – 1927: Centenary Edition". The three volumes are:-

Vol 1 Mammals (by S. S. Flower)
Vol 2 Birds (by G. Carmichael Low)
Vol 3 Reptiles (by S. S. Flower); Amphibians (by Malcolm A. Smith); Fishes (by E.G. Boulenger).

 

[Pastiche]

Yes, wolves have been kept in London Zoo in Regent’s Park, although there are none there currently.

Hey Tim, in the mammals book does it discuss the wolves? Per my knowledge Regent park didn’t have any wolves, always open to education.

 

[Tim May]

Hey Tim, in the mammals book does it discuss the wolves? Per my knowledge Regent park didn’t have any wolves, always open to education.

The book I mentioned lists wolves at Regent's Park although, as I commented, there are none there currently.

 

[Cobi]

Wolves were most recently kept in a wolf wood enclosure on the sight of the current squirrel monkey walkthrough. I don’t know the exact dates now but later maned wolves were housed there and then the monkeys.

Further back in history there were smaller cage-like enclosures with wolves where the children’s zoo is now, next to the Lubetkin penguin pool.

 

[Pertinax]

Wolves were most recently kept in a wolf wood enclosure on the sight of the current squirrel monkey walkthrough. I don’t know the exact dates now but later maned wolves were housed there and then the monkeys.

Further back in history there were smaller cage-like enclosures with wolves where the children’s zoo is now, next to the Lubetkin penguin pool.

They were also (sometimes) visible from the main path through Regents Park just adjacent to the zoo.

 

[oflory]

They are famous cast members in the film Withnail and I.

 

[DesertRhino150]

The 1997 guidebook that I have has a section about grey wolves, but the map included with it makes no mention of them - nothing is shown in the area now occupied by the squirrel monkey walkthrough.

 

[Anthony Lawrence]

Thanks very much for these responses. It's great to hear from you all. Now i'm off to learn about where animals came from and how they were brought to the menageries.

 

[steveroberts]

Hello folks - it's been wonderful to read through the various posts and discussions here.
I have two questions:
1) were there wolves at the original London Zoo at Regent's park?
2) could someone kindly point me in the direction of a good resource or book on how animals were first collected and brought to London Zoo?

Many thanks and all good things

Anthony

Old map of London Zoo from c.1990 courtesay of JamesB that shows the Grey Wolves/Timber Wolves in the Wolf Woods exhibit (where Squirrel Monkey walkthrough is now???, yes thanks @DesertRhino150 for clearing up it was:

Old Map - ZooChat

 

[Crowthorne]

I saw Maned Wolves in that enclosure around 2000-2001, the Grey Wolves must have left sometime around 1998

 

[Tim May]

..... the Grey Wolves must have left sometime around 1998

The last two grey wolves died in 1998

 

[Dassie rat]

Part of 'An American Werewolf in London' was filmed in London Zoo's wolf enclosure