Our Gorilla Kingdom brings the African rainforest to the heart of London. You'll be able to meet Africa's most exciting residents, featuring our troop of western lowland gorillas.
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Oldest in the world. Founded in 1826 by the Zoological Society of London, the ZSL London Zoo was originally built to keep animals for scientific research. It was the creation of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles who is also famous for the founding of Singapore (and the famous Raffles Hotel).
Gorillas are extremely intelligent animals and they are to a great extent aware of their situation in zoos. Often they seem depressed when living in captivity in particular in some zoos were the enclosures are not large enough for their natural needs.
London Zoo's animals move to WhipsnadeIn the preparation for war, through the summer of 1939, some of London's animals were transferred to Whipsnade for safety. The transfers included two giant pandas, two orangutans, four chimpanzees, three Asian elephants, three red pandas and an ostrich.
L ondon Zoo's three elephants, involved in the recent crushing to death of a keeper, are leaving the capital, ending a 170-year presence at the Regent's Park site.
Because the pandas were sent on loan to London specifically to breed, the failure meant that the pandas were eventually split up and sent to other breeding programmes. Bao Bao was sent back to Berlin Zoo after a few years.