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  2. Whipsnade Zoo - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. Gerald Durrell - Wikipedia

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    Gerald Malcolm Durrell OBE (7 January 1925 – 30 January 1995) was a 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.

  4. Lion cubs take their first steps outside at zoo - AOL

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    Three northern African lion cubs have been pictured taking their first exploratory steps outside at a zoo. Their movements have been monitored on a hidden cubcam at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.

  5. Whipsnade - Wikipedia

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    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).

  6. Zoological Society of London - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Dunstable Downs - Wikipedia

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    Whipsnade Zoo has cut an enormous lion shape into the chalk on the side of one of the hills. The lion can be seen from the B489 ( Aylesbury to Dunstable road). The downs are used by gliders , kite fliers, hang gliders and paragliders in the area because of their height.

  8. Woburn Safari Park - Wikipedia

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    Woburn Safari Park is also the only zoo in the UK to hold Vietnamese Sika Deer - a species extinct in the wild. Woburn has won BIAZA's (British Association of Zoo's and Aquariums) for animal welfare for its management of Californian Sea Lions (2008) and Rothschild's giraffe (2004) as well as winning the BIAZA award for Education and Marketing ...

  9. White rhino born at Whipsnade Zoo - AOL

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