History of zoos

HISTORY OF ZOOS

  • The earliest recorded zoological collections associate with cheetah that are currently extinct in India. Emperor Ashoka in third century B.C. respected the ashrams of saints that always had deer and birds. Manageries were the places meant for the collection of animals in earlier periods.
  • Documentations are available about the fight between the lions or tiger and man in a captive state. Even mythical five headed cobra was mentioned in earlier records. Hunting of lions and cheetah and tigers was carried out in large numbers once upon a time.

Place

Year of starting of Zoo

Vienna zoo

1752

Paris zoo

1793

London zoo

1826

Philadelphia zoo

1874

Calcutta zoo

1854

Trivandrum zoo

1857


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