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    Chester Zoo is a zoo in Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, England. Chester Zoo was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family. The zoo is one of the...
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    The Chester Zoo monorail was an internal transport system at Chester Zoo that operated from 1991 to 2019. The system was 1.4 kilometres (0.9 miles) long...
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  • dreams of creating a cage-free zoo, his family and how their lives changed when they embarked on the creation of Chester Zoo. Lee Ingleby as George Mottershead...
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  • of the Zoo is a British documentary programme produced by Blast! Films on behalf of Channel 4. The series is filmed on location at Chester Zoo in the...
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    Saul Mottershead OBE (12 June 1894 – 5 May 1978) was the founder of Chester Zoo. Mottershead was born in Sale Moor, Manchester. His father Albert Mottershead...
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    born in Chester Zoo, to Asian mother Sheba and African father Jumbolino. He was named after George Mottershead, who founded the Chester Zoo in 1931....
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    Chester and the surrounding area. Chester Zoo opened in 1931 and is now one of the largest zoos in the United Kingdom. In and around Upton-by-Chester...
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    2006, it was reported that Flora, a captive Komodo dragon living in the Chester Zoo in England, was the second known Komodo dragon to have laid unfertilised...
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    summer repertory season. To the east side of the city is Chester Zoo, the UK's largest zoo with over 11,000 animals in 110 acres of award-winning gardens...
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    Captive populations are held in several zoos in the UK including: Chester Zoo, London Zoo, Jersey Zoo and Edinburgh Zoo. The Montserrat galliwasp (Diploglossus...
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  • London Zoo, previously known as ZSL London Zoo or London Zoological Gardens and sometimes called Regent's Park Zoo, is the world's oldest scientific zoo. It...
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  • in 2014 as Lizzie Mottershead in BBC One's Our Zoo, a drama series about the man who created Chester Zoo and the effect it had on his family. On stage...
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    transferred to Chester Zoo in England. Joachim-Raphaël Boronali List of individual apes "Pierre Brassau, Monkey Artist". The Museum of Hoaxes. "Zoo Story". Time...
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    the UK’s Chester Zoo have solely Rothschild's giraffes. The Cheyenne Mountain Zoo (Colorado), Busch Gardens Tampa (Florida), the Maryland Zoo (Baltimore)...
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    are most often red colored. Their dorsum color has been described by Chester Zoo curator Gerardo Garcia as "the color of dijon mustard" and the salamanders...
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    critically endangered the Chester Zoo was successful in breeding them for the first time in captivity on 9/09/2017 UK zoo creates a skink to save rare...
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  • Carmella de (17 September 2014). "Chester Zoo: Founder's daughter to make appearance in episode of TV's Our Zoo". chesterchronicle.co.uk. Retrieved...
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    Chester Zoo, Bristol Zoo, Whipsnade Zoo and Marwell Zoo from the United Kingdom, Zoo de Cerza, Parc zoologique de Bordeaux Pessac and La Palmyre Zoo from...
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  • an elephant called Judy while he was presenting a live programme from Chester Zoo in 1981. He retired from Granada Television in 1999. On 17 January 2008...
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    Blank Park Zoo (Iowa); and Potter Park Zoo (Michigan). In Europe, zoos that exhibit and breed okapis include: Chester Zoo, London Zoo, Marwell Zoo, The Wild...
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    at zoos such as London Zoo, Chester Zoo, Chessington Zoo, Maidstone Zoo (Closed. Was located at TQ 745 588.), Bristol Zoo, Dudley Zoo, Edinburgh Zoo, Whipsnade...
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  • Flop at Chester Zoo for storytime, a trail and more". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 19 May 2023. "Bing and Flop at London Zoo | London Zoo". www.londonzoo...
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    Bristol Zoo, Royal Burgers' Zoo, Chester Zoo, Edinburgh Zoo, Durrell Wildlife Park, Waddesdon Manor aviary and Zoo Basel. Six of these zoos have successfully...
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  • the Chester Zoo, from 1978 to 1995. He won the 1999 Silver Medal of the Zoological Society of London. He was curator of mammals at the London Zoo, when...
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  • Executive of the North of England Zoological Society, popularly known as Chester Zoo. He stepped down in 2010. The North of England Zoological Society is...
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  • National Cycle Route 56 north of Chester Zoo. Chester | Conwy | Bangor | Menai Bridge | Holyhead The track leaves Chester (and England) on the Northern bank...
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    a cancerous tumour in order to successfully breed. In January 2016, Chester Zoo, England, announced that they succeeded in breeding the tuatara in captivity...
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  • at zoos in Britain, from the 1950s to the 1970s. Each series was set during a different decade, with exteriors filmed at Dudley Zoo, Chester Zoo and...
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    Paignton Zoo is a zoo in Paignton, Devon, England. The zoo was started as a private collection by avid animal collector and breeder, Herbert Whitley,...
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    just been imported from Panay in the Philippines by Chester Zoo, England. There are two pairs at Chester, and two pairs at Avifauna in the Netherlands, amongst...
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