THE SOCIETY'S VISIT TO COLCHESTER ZOO

摘要

I visited Colchester Zoo frequently as a child in the 1960s. Like most zoos of the time, it functioned as more of a consumer than a producer of wildlife, with a preponderance of imported, wild-caught stock. From those days, I remember particularly Tayra, Orison and Malabar Squirrels among the mammals, and that the birds included wing-clipped crowned pigeons sharing an open enolosure with cranes and waterfowl. The impression was that Lions, Leopards and Cheetahs (the zoo had relatively 'handleable' examples of all three) were the most valued exhibits. There were, however, lots of animals, many of them in comparatively small functional enclosures with little in the way of stimulation.