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Whipsnade Zoo, formerly known as ZSL Whipsnade Zoo and Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, is a zoo and safari park located at Whipsnade, near Dunstable in Bedfordshire, England. It is one of two zoos (the other being London Zoo in Regent's Park, London) that are owned by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats.
Gerald Malcolm Durrell OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was an Indian-born British naturalist, writer, zookeeper, conservationist, and television presenter.He was born in Jamshedpur in British India, [note 2] and moved to England when his father died in 1928.
A zoo in southwest England is working to rescue a freshwater fish species, considered one of the "most imperiled groups of animals on earth" from extinction.. Whipsnade Zoo in Dunstable, a town in ...
ZSL bought the farm in December 1926 for £13,480 12s 10d. In 1928 the first animals arrived at the new Whipsnade Park—two Amherst pheasants, a golden pheasant and five red jungle fowl. Others soon followed, including muntjac deer, llamas, wombats and skunks. In 1931 Whipsnade Park was opened to the public as the world's first open zoological ...
An overview of Whipsnade Central Station sees Kerr Stuart 0-4-2ST Brazil Class No. 2 'Excelsior' and train being prepared for a day's work. Construction of the railway started in 1970 and the initial line opened on 26 August 1970. The line provided rides within the animal enclosures and an additional attraction in its own right.
Whipsnade is home to Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, a 9 + 1 ⁄ 2 acres (3.8 ha) arboretum planted in the arrangement of a cathedral, and Whipsnade Zoo. A chalk hill figure of a lion can be found on Bison Hill, created in 1933; it is owned by the zoo. It is the longest hill figure in England at 483 feet (147 m).
The personality of the animals in the book usually reflects Durrell's opinion about those species. For example, the gorillas have a lovable personality because Durrell was on good terms with his gorillas at the Jersey Zoo. On the contrary, the camel is rude and nasty because when Durrell worked at Whipsnade Zoo, he was bitten by a camel.
Whipsnade is an open air zoo in the countryside, where animals occupy large enclosures rather than cages. The park is involved in a variety of conservation activities. In 1933 he was one of eleven people [ a ] involved in the appeal that led to the foundation of the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO), an organisation for the study of birds in ...