The beloved London Zoo has provided generations of children with hours of fun since it opened in 1847.
It was only when he visited London Zoo that he found that the birds still remained within their cages.
Two pandas in London Zoo sparked fears a diplomatic rift could flare up between Britain and China in the 1970s.
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London Zoo, the Tower of London and Kew Gardens are just some of the attractions that saw a dip in numbers over the summer.
The paw print investigated by Surrey Police, on 7 September 1966 in Munstead , was identified by London Zoo officials as the print of a puma.
But London Zoo officials later identified the creature as a North American Jungle Cat after a plaster cast was taken from paw prints made in a forest near Port Talbot.
The giant tortoises, mockingbirds and finches varied from island to island, and this became clearer to Darwin after London Zoo's bird expert John Gould analysed his finches in January 1837.
His high-profile stunts have included painting "I want out" inside the elephant enclosure of London Zoo and a painting of a ladder on the partition wall in Israel's West Bank.
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"I have a colleague at London Zoo who was called out last year after the police spotted a 'big cat', only to find it was an ordinary ginger moggy, " he said.
The artists range from Leonardo Da Vinci to LS Lowry and the locations of artworks include fire stations, courts, libraries, a former nuclear bunker, London Zoo and a lighthouse - as well as major museums and art galleries.
However, slightly lower on the evolutionary scale I spoke to London Zoo to ask whether monkeys had right or left handed preferences and I discovered that they tend to use both left and right, and hands and feet, interchangeably.
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