**"Celebrate Visit the Zoo Day! 🦁🐒 Every year on December 27, we honor the role zoos play in protecting and preserving animal species.

#VisitTheZooDay #ZooHistory #ConservationMattrs

Aside from the coffee - does anyone know of an academic reference to Henry IIIs elephant being fed beef and red wine?

I feel I’ve read it somewhere but cannot for the life of me find the source…

#IamWriting #Zoohistory #animalfeeding #skyhistorians

Wartime zoo tips for food savings:

1. Plant victory gardens.
2. Feed zoo animals "patriotic diets" (cat meat + cod's liver oil = substitute for fresh fish).
3. Feed some animals to other animals.
4. Close the zoo.

Not sure these tips are helpful....

#worldwarzoos #zoos #zoohistory

Carl Hagenbeck is credited with building the world's first "cageless zoo", in #Hamburg in 1907. Instead of metal bars, visitors were separated from the animals by moats, making you feel like they were in the same space. He also built naturalistic scenes to give a sense of "wildness". #ZooHistory

Lubetkin Penguin Pool

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#photography #zoophotography #zoo #zoohistory #zoobuildings #enclosuredesign #modernism #BertholdLubetkin #ZSL #LondonZoo #London

🦜 On this day in 1950, the Cleveland Zoo proudly dedicated its brand-new Bird Building.

From exotic parrots to local songbirds, this exhibit gave visitors a chance to get up close with creatures that soar, sing, and strut.

#CoastTV #TidalHealth #OnThisDay #ZooHistory #ClevelandZoo #BirdBuilding

The Man Who Invented the Modern Zoo Tested Out His Ideas on People First: Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd followed… @SmithsonianMag #ZooHistory #AnimalWelfare #EthicsInExhibits #CarlHagenbeck #CulturalHistory

CPA Elephant enclosure Central Park New York

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#CPA #Postcard #CentralPark #ElephantEnclosure #ZooHistory #VintagePostcard #AntiquePostcard #NYC #CentralParkZoo #OldZoo #HistoricPostcard #AnimalEnclosure #WildlifeHistory