London Zoo opens (but not to everyone)
“The quagga at London Zoo is the only example to have been photographed alive”
27 April 1828, the tranquil space of Regent’s Park in central London, was transformed when the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) opened the world’s first zoo for scientific study. No longer was the leafy royal park just a home to squirrels and pigeons – visitors to the zoo could now come to face to face with the Arabian oryx and llamas.
