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The Zoo line was Melbourne's last horse tram and the only line still in operation at the formation of the Melbourne and Metropolitan Tramways Board ( MMTB ), but it was destroyed by fire during the 1923 police strike.
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The Zoo Line, from the Royal Parade cable line to Melbourne Zoological Gardens, opened on 10 March 1890 and closed in November 1923.
Upfield railway line, Melbourne Zoo.
The opening of Maokong Gondola in 2007 have also boosted passenger numbers travelling on the line to Taipei Zoo for transfer.
In 1986 the zoo was enclosed with a fence, in line with the Zoo Licensing Act 1981.
The gauge line ran from the upper part of the glen, Lhen Coan, to the Zoo at Sea Lion Rocks.
It opened in sections: the line from Kluse to Zoo / Stadion opened on 1 March, the line to the western terminus at Vohwinkel opened on 24 May, while the line to the eastern terminus at Oberbarmen did not open until 27 June 1903.
The line runs from the Embarcadero Station in the Financial District to the 46th Avenue and Wawona Street, near the San Francisco Zoo in the Sunset District.
This represents a size more commonly used for more extensive light railway systems, rather than so-called ' miniature ' railways, although in the case of the Blackpool Zoo line the entire extent of the railway is only a little over 700 yards.
The Upfield railway line travels through Royal Park with Royal Park Station being a convenient stop for the Melbourne Zoo.
The Capital City Trail for cyclists follows the train line through Royal Park from the Moonee Ponds Creek Trail at Flemington Bridge, past Melbourne Zoo, and under Royal Parade along the converted Inner Circle railway line to Princes Park.
* Suzy Spafford, creator of the Suzy's Zoo line of greeting cards, calendars and cartoons
Lines 800 and 801 run together from De Marly to Dorchester / de la Couronne, where line 801 continues on to Terminus du Zoo, while line 800 diverges to the Montmorency falls.
This move was unpopular for its effect on Berlin's two previous main stations ; Berlin Zoologischer Garten ( Zoo Station ) was downgraded to a regional railway station, and the number of main line services to Berlin Ostbahnhof ( East Station ) was drastically reduced.
After crossing over the Paoli / Thorndale Line at the intersection with Belmont Avenue, the line passes by the Philadelphia Zoo near Exit 342 on the Schuylkill Expressway before crossing the Schuylkill River.
A crossbreeding program conducted by the Oregon Zoo, Washington State University and Northwest Trek is attempting to preserve the genetic line by breeding surviving females with the Idaho Pygmy Rabbit.
Further enhancements of this style were developed such as a line of castles and animals which are referred to as the " Inflatable Zoo ".
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Christopher Robin Milne's stuffed bear, originally named " Edward ", was renamed " Winnie-the-Pooh " after a Canadian black bear named Winnie ( after Winnipeg ), which was used as a military mascot in World War I, and left to London Zoo during the war.
He was employed by the Zoological Society of London as Curator of Mammals at the London Zoo, eventually leaving in 1966 in frustration about stagnation at the zoo.
The Ozark hellbender was successfully bred in captivity for the first time at the St. Louis Zoo, in a joint project with the Missouri Department of Conservation, hatching on Nov. 15, 2011.
Kabul Zoo was inaugurated in 1967, which was maintained with the help of visiting German zoologists.
On December 20, 2006, it was reported that Flora, a captive Komodo dragon living in the Chester Zoo in England, was the second known Komodo dragon to have laid unfertilized eggs: she laid 11 eggs, and seven of them hatched, all of them male.
The first Komodo dragon was exhibited in 1934 at the National Zoo in Washington, D. C., but it lived for only two years.
The first okapi to arrive in North America was at the Bronx Zoo, via Antwerp, in 1937.
The first okapi born in captivity outside Congo was at the Antwerp Zoo, Belgium in 1953 ; the first born in North America was at the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois in 1959.
A children's book, And Tango Makes Three, was written about one such penguin family in the New York Zoo.
The last attempt to breed the remaining specimens was done by Whitman and the Cincinnati Zoo, which included attempts at making a rock dove foster passenger pigeon eggs.
Whitman sent Martha, which was to be the last known specimen, to Cincinnati Zoo in 1902.
The only quagga to have been photographed alive was a mare at the Zoological Society of London's Zoo in Regent's Park in 1870.
In 2009, Sarah Glass, curator of red pandas and special exhibits at the Knoxville Zoo in Knoxville, Tennessee, was appointed as coordinator for the North American Red Panda Species Survival Plan.
In 2009 the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo was the first in the world to offer Segway guided tours in the zoo.
* The Toledo Zoo was the first zoo to feature a hippoquarium-style exhibit.
Dr. Berra is the former editor of The Ohio Journal of Science and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium where he also served on the Conservation and Collection Management Committee.
In September 2003, Wallace & Gromit in Project Zoo was released for the PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo GameCube, and Microsoft Windows.
Still obsessed with diamonds, he escapes from the penguin enclosure of West Wallaby Zoo, where he was " imprisoned " at the end of The Wrong Trousers, and takes over the entire zoo, kidnapping young animals and forcing their parents to work for him, helping him turn the zoo into a diamond mine.
Project Zoo was published by BAM!
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* 1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet dies in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.
On the last such visit, the pelts were given in the form of two live beavers, which the Queen donated to the Winnipeg Zoo in Assiniboine Park.
Martha, thought to be the world's last Passenger Pigeon, died on September 1, 1914, at the Cincinnati Zoo.
Remains of the last wild passenger pigeon at Cincinnati Zoo
On September 1, 1914, Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, died in the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio.
* 1914 – The last passenger pigeon, a female named Martha, dies in captivity in the Cincinnati Zoo.
* 1936 – The last surviving member of the thylacine species, Benjamin, dies alone in her cage at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
* February 21 – The last captive Carolina Parakeet ( the last breed of parrot native to the eastern United States ) dies at the Cincinnati Zoo.
* September 7 – The last known thylacine ( Tasmanian Tiger ), named Benjamin, dies in Hobart Zoo in Tasmania.
The last outside the Philippines died in 1988 in the Antwerp Zoo where it had lived since 1964 ( except for a period at the Planckendael Zoo in Belgium ).
The Cincinnati Zoo was the home of Martha, the last living passenger pigeon, which died there in 1914.
In 1993 with the success of his last remix as Perfecto, he was hired by U2 to provide the warm-up sonics to their Zoo TV world tour, and replaced BP Fallon on the 1993 legs in Europe and Australia, New Zealand, and Japan, with more than fifty shows in Zooropa ' 93 and Zoomerang from 7 May to 10 December of the same year.
He made a total of sixteen guest appearances in ITC shows — the most of any actor — with his last completed role being ITC's The Zoo Gang shown in 1974.
In January 2010, Kasia, at the time the last captive Leadbeater's possum worldwide, died at Toronto Zoo.
Similar series also included Soul Train ( 1970 – 2006, featuring R & B artists ), Club MTV ( 1986 – 92, featuring Dance Music acts ; hosted by Downtown Julie Brown, an alumnus of TOTP as part of the show's last dance troupe Zoo ) and Solid Gold ( 1980 – 88 ; like the early TOTP, it also used dance troupes ).
The last captive Javan rhino died at the Adelaide Zoo in Australia in 1907, where the species was so little known that it had been exhibited as an Indian rhinoceros.
The Stanley Park Zoo closed completely in December 1997 after the last remaining animal, a polar bear named Tuk, died at age 36.
* September 1-Martha, the last known Passenger Pigeon, dies, in the Cincinnati Zoo.
A few tucuxis remained in captivity in European aquaria, but the last one (" Paco ") died in 2009 in the Zoo of Münster, Germany.
* 1914 – The last Passenger Pigeon dies in Cincinnati Zoo
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