LONDON’S NEW ZOO.

Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1928, Page 5

LONDON’S NEW ZOO.

Visitors to London this autumn will have an opportunity of seeing a new Zoo. It comprises over two hundred different animals, including every variety of bird, beast and fish known to Canada. Its only drawback as an otherwise instantaneous rival to Regent’s Park is that all the animals aro stuffed! Apart from this, the Zoo contains some of the finest specimens of wild animals. There is, for instance, “Honey,” the largest grizzly hear yet found in British Columbia, standing nearby Bft high, and with a magnificent coat. There is also “Samson,” a giant male buffalo, and the last animal to be trapped on the Northern Saskatchewan prairies before the passing of the Canadian Government s, humane Act for the protection of park reserves. “Samson” had been a target for tlie hunters shot for many years. He is considerably bigger than the largest buffalo at present in the Zoological Gardens. There are also hears, moose, foxes, wolves, elks, wapitis, sheep and many varieties ol fish and birds. This magnificent display of the taxidermist’s art is the first of its kind to be seen in London, and is the property oif the Canadian Exhibition Commission. The animals are at present at Wapping, but will be removed later to Hampstead, the site of the new exhibition, building now in course of erection by the Canadian Government, and which it is hoped will he completed and thrown open to the public in the autumn. Tlio animals will be shown as far as possible in their natural surroundings, and will provide a zoologcial Madame Tussaud’s. Thus will he brought within a compass of 2000 square feet the fauna, of half a continent stretching over 3000 miles east and west ,and neatly as much north and south.