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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...
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  • at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire to which the larger animals such as elephants and rhinos have been moved. As well as being the first scientific zoo, London...
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    Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in Bedfordshire, England. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, about 2+1⁄2 miles (4...
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    was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained London Zoo, and since 1931 Whipsnade Zoo. On 29 November 1822, the birthday of John Ray, "the father...
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    Gerald Durrell (category Zoo directors)
    enunciate with any clarity was "zoo". Beasts in My Belfry recalls events of this period. Durrell left Whipsnade Zoo in May 1946 to join wildlife collecting...
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    deployed on active duty with the battalion on Cyprus. He retired to Whipsnade Zoo in May 2009. His young replacement is known as William Windsor II. The...
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    2 ft 6 in (762 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within ZSL Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England. Construction of the railway started in 1970...
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    ships in the port of Great Yarmouth during the years 1808 to 1814. Whipsnade Zoo has cut an enormous lion shape into the chalk on the side of one of...
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    from Woburn to Whipsnade, also in Bedfordshire, and released into the park. The current population of Chinese water deer at Whipsnade is currently estimated...
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    arrived from Twycross Zoo during summer 2018.[citation needed] In October 2019 bull elephant Emmett arrived from Whipsnade Zoo as part of the European...
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    reared at the zoo since 1972 and many of these have been released back to the Sahara with animals from Whipsnade Zoo and Edinburgh Zoo. The charity carries...
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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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  • Park Twycross Zoo UK Wolf Conservation Trust Welsh Mountain Zoo - National Zoological Society of Wales West Midlands Safari Park Whipsnade Zoo Wildlife Heritage...
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    the Zoo's architecture and general organisation; and special studies of animals." The book also contains descriptions of Whipsnade Zoo, Bristol Zoo and...
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    surrounding woods.: 96  A few more probably escaped from the nearby Whipsnade Zoo. During the mid-20th century, Woburn conducted several deliberate releases...
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    match, pubs, windmills and a zoo.: 652  The zoo is named Chessnade after Chessington World of Adventures and Whipsnade Zoo; shops are titled with punning...
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    most-visited attractions in the United Kingdom, including art galleries, gardens, zoos theatres, libraries and museums. List of most visited art museums List of...
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    scholarly research, came together in the founding of the first modern zoos. Whipsnade Park Zoo in Bedfordshire, England, opened in 1931. It allowed visitors to...
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    Edinburgh Zoo, Whipsnade, Belle Vue Zoo (now closed) and Paignton Zoo, sister zoo to the project headquarters at Newquay Zoo. London Zoo keepers helped...
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  • mineralised baby dinosaur skin. Others have limb bones and skulls. At Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire, England, Professor John Hutchinson looks at the gait...
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    group's successes at the London Zoo resulted in their designing two other zoos: Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire and Dudley Zoo in West Midlands. The group then...
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    Monika Fiby (4 June 2011), Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Whipsnade Zoo Cheetah Rock, ZooLex.org, retrieved 8 February 2015 Jackman, B. (2011-09-10)...
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    traditionally selected from the royal herd kept at Whipsnade Zoo, an outstation of the London Zoo. It's fitting that the two regiments with goat-mascots...
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  • other institutions. Undergraduate projects are available at London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo. Living Planet Index Red List Index Regional Red List EDGE of Existence...
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    PMC 4846825. PMID 27023619. "Eight little piggies went a-marching". Whipsnade Zoo. Archived from the original on 14 August 2016. Retrieved 22 May 2015...
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    Peter Chalmers Mitchell (category Zoo directors)
    Gardens of London and created the world's first open zoological park, Whipsnade Zoo. Peter Chalmers Mitchell was the son of the Rev. Alexander Mitchell...
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  • which were successfully treated. The May 2009 deaths of two calves at Whipsnade Zoo were not included in this calculation. This gives a fatality rate of...
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  • Egyptian Tortoise was named Tiny Tim at the Zoological Society of London Whipsnade Zoo. The Australian children's music group The Wiggles made a version called...
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  • on the Penguin Pool at London's Regent's Park Zoo, as well as on projects at Whipsnade Zoo, Dudley Zoo, a villa in Heath Drive, Romford, Essex, and Highpoint...
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    Bute, Scotland. This was founded in 1975 with two pairs taken from the Whipsnade Zoo, and had risen to 26 individuals by 1993. There is a significant group...
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