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Known History of Zoos
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Known History of Zoos
1900 - Present Day
1000: Woodstock, Oxfordshire
1000 BCE: Ancient China
1670: Palace of Versailles, France
3500 BCE: Heirakonpolis, Egypt
- Louis XIV had the menagerie built at the same time as the palace
- Became a model for menageries throughout Europe
- William the Conqueror started a small royal menagerie.
- His son, Henry I, enclosed Woodstock and enlarged the collection, creating England's first zoo.
- Included lions, leopards, lynxes, camels, owls and a porcupine.
- Modern zoos are focused on education and conservation
- Nearly every country has some type of animal park
- According to the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA), there are over 10,000 zoos worldwide.
- King Wen of Zhou
- 1,500-acre zoo
- Called Ling-Yu, or the Garden of Intelligence
- Main exhibit was the Giant Panda
- Discovered in 2009
- Lavish animal burials
- Kept by the city's rulers
- Hippos, antelope, elephants, baboons and wildcats
The Royal Park of Woodstock
References
- Shigeo Yamada (2000). The Construction of the Assyrian Empire: A Historical Study of the Inscriptions of Shalmanesar III Relating to His Campaigns in the West. Brill. p. 253
- Blunt, Wilfrid, The Ark in the Park: The Zoo in the Nineteenth Century, Hamish Hamilton, 1976, pp.15-17. ISBN 0-241-89331-3
- O'Regan, Hannah, "From bear pit to zoo", British Archaeology, No.68, December 2002, pp.13-19
- Hoage, Robert J., Roskell, Anne and Mansour, Jane, "Menageries and Zoos to 1900", in New World, New Animals: From Menagerie to Zoological Park in the Nineteenth Century, Hoage, Robert J. and Deiss, William A. (ed.), Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 1996, pp.8-18. ISBN 0-8018-5110-6
1900
1200
Common Era
1700
2000 BCE
4000 BCE
1200: Italy and London
1100 BCE: Middle Assyrian Empire
800: Roman Empire
1828: London Zoo, England
Emperor Frederick II, King of Italy
London: Tower Menagerie 1204 - 1835
- Ashur-bel-kala, King of Assyria
- Zoological and botanical gardens built from the city moat
- Most were gifts from Egypt
- Bred and traded very rare animals
- Evidence found in inscriptions made by the king detailing his work
- 3 menageries: Melfi in Basilicata, at Lucera in Apulia and at Palermo in Sicily.
- An elephant, a white bear, a giraffe, a leopard, hyenas, lions, cheetahs, camels and monkeys
- originally intended to be used as a collection for scientific study. It was eventually opened to the public in 1847.
- Today it houses a collection of 756 species of animals, with 17,480 individuals, making it one of the largest collections in the United Kingdom.
- The zoo is sometimes called Regent's Zoo.
- Started by King John
- Gifts from the kings of Norway, France, and Italy
- Opened to the public during the reign of Elizabeth I in the 16th century.
- During the 18th century, the price of admission was three half-pence, or the supply of a cat or dog to be fed to the lions.
- Emperor Charlemagne (Charles the Great)
- 3 menageries located in present-day Netherlands and Germany,
- Known for elephants, monkeys, lions, bears, camels, falcons, and many exotic birds.
- Many were gifts from rulers of Africa and Asia.