A NEW ZOO.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20411, 4 December 1931, Page 5

A NEW ZOO.

WHIPSNADE PARK. ANIMALS IN NATURAL STATE. (r«0 U QL'R OW* VOBKESrONPEKT.) LONDON, October 30. In spite of bad weather conditions during the summer Whipsnade Park, the 500-acre rural extension of tho Loudoi Zoo, has been visited by over 300,000 people. This week the "population" at the park is to be increased |jy the arrival of two Jj'olar bears from Regent's Park. A more important addition is expected early next year, when tho "open-air Zoo" will receive Mr Bostock's menagerie, which was recently bought by the Zoological Society. This jnenagerio includes: 12 Jious, 4 leopards, 2 hyenas, 2 camels, 1 elephant, 1 Polar bear. Besides these there.will be many monkeys and smaller animals arriving. While a representative collection of wild animals lias been exhibited throughout the season, the authorities agree that an increase in their numbers is desirable, and steps have been taken accordingly. The present collection includes bears, wolves, lions, zebras, ostriches, bi.sou, and herds of deer and tmtelope. Many of the animals _ are breeding in their spacious surroundings, and are increasing in numbers automatically. Whilst this new form of exhibition is designed primarily to interest, the public, it is at the same time intended to benefit the animals themselves. It is a genuine—not ji|st a showman's attempt to exhibit wild animals under natural conditions. »