LONDON'S ZOO

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 129, 4 June 1927, Page 9

LONDON'S ZOO

LAST YEAR'S VISITS

NEARLY TWO MILLIONS

(From "The Post's" Representative.) LONDON, 14th April. Notwithstanding the strike, the Zoological Gardens in London had during last year a total of 1,937,935 visitors, a number exceeded only in 1924, when the first year of the Wembley Exhibition brought many people to London. The amount received from Fellows' subscriptions in 1926 was £18,409, a "record"; Garden gat)-money was £61,----323, and Aquarium gate-money £17,----241, both amounts"" exceeding the corresponding figures for 1925. Among the animals bred and roared in 1926 were eight ibex, ton Barbary shoep, four thar, seven moufflon, a hippopotamus, llama, and peccary, ten gazelles and antelopes of different species, four deer, two wild dogs, andfour wolves. Among the birds hatched and reared were two penguins, two geese, 37 pheasants of different species, two brush-turkeys, five coeicatiels, 86 green, .34 blue, and two white budgerigars, and four gulls; Two stumptailed lizards and 18 anacondas were born and reared.

A list is given in the annual report of the more important items in the food supply, among which may be noted 162 tons of hay, 134 tons of clover, 14,242 bundles of tares, 85cwt of locust-beans, 7281b quaker oats, two tons of grapes, 237,980 bananas, 6 tons 13cwt of apples, 521b of sultanas, 12,624 tins of condensed milk, 435 horses, 44 tons of herrings and whiting, and 1825 pints, of shrimps. The total cost of the provisions used by the animals was over £13,000. In, rent, rates, and taxes the society paid £7027. 85, Fleet street.