AMAZING ANIMALS

HEYTHROP ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS | OXFORDSHIRE | ENGLAND

The 1950’s was undeniably the golden age for many of the zoological gardens that we love today; Chester zoo, London zoo and Bristol zoo had all come into their own and started to explore how to make their collections more accessible to visitors in an engaging way.

Some of these ideas, such as reptile shows, ape scatter feeding, penguin feeding and parrot shows, remain a fixture even now in certain establishments; guests will see a Macaw flying from perch to perch with the aide of a favourite treat, displaying its’ huge wingspan and glorious coloured feathers at full extension, or a penguin displaying its’ underwater acrobatics as it dives for fish thrown by the keepers.

These displays are engineered to not only give the audience a better understanding of the animal’s capabilities, but to illicit a sense of awe at how truly magnificent and complex these creatures are...

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INTERVIEW: JIM CLUBB | HEYTHROP ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

WORDS: FAITH MILLWARD

IMAGES: JONATHAN GLYNN-SMITH