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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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    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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    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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    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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