Zoo
A zoo was opened in the park in 1903 by the park committee. In 1911 the Geelong Advertiser's illustrated magazine News of the Week published an inventory of the zoo:
- Black Ducks (Australian)
- Niox Boobook (Australian)
- Mandarin Duck (China)
- Mallard Duck (Europe)
- Peacock (India)
- White Swan (Arctic Regions)
- Guinea Fowls (Africa)
Mammals:
- Monkeys (Africa)
- Four Kangaroos
- Silver Kangaroo (the largest of which stands six feet tall)
- Six deer (native of Scotland, but several have been bred in the park)
- Wallaby (Tasmania)
- Great Kangaroo (Tasmania)
- Lemur (Madagascar)
The zoo closed at an unknown date.
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Famous quotes containing the word zoo:
“...there was the annual Fourth of July picketing at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. ...I thought it was ridiculous to have to go there in a skirt. But I did it anyway because it was something that might possibly have an effect. I remember walking around in my little white blouse and skirt and tourists standing there eating their ice cream cones and watching us like the zoo had opened.”
—Martha Shelley, U.S. author and social activist. As quoted in Making History, part 3, by Eric Marcus (1992)
“The zoo cannot but disappoint. The public purpose of zoos is to offer visitors the opportunity of looking at animals. Yet nowhere in a zoo can a stranger encounter the look of an animal. At the most, the animal’s gaze flickers and passes on. They look sideways. They look blindly beyond.”
—John Berger (b. 1926)