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ALMOST simultaneously there have been made announcements of two proposals of great importance in the evolution of the modern zoological garden in Britain. The Zoological Society of London has acquired an estate of 400 acres, lying under the Dunstable Downs, midway between Tring and Luton, which is to be developed on lines very different from those familiar in Regent's Park; and the Zoological Society of Scotland proposes to develop its park to the crest of Corstorphine Hill, over 47 acres which it now possesses but which have hitherto been used as a golf course. In magnitude the two ventures are scarcely comparable, but both are at one in indicating that the future of zoological garden development in Great Britain lies along the lines of spaciousness and freedom, and that the old-fashioned ‘zoo,’ cramped in space and overstocked in kind, meeting neither the needs of the animals nor the demands of the Nature lover, is on the path to extinction.
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The Modern ‘Zoo’. Nature 119, 675–676 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119675a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119675a0