This is an uncommon, very unusual, extremely interesting, and really collectable edition of a zoo guide book from what is one of the U.K’s leading zoological collections. Colchester Zoo was opened in June 1963 by two zoologists and was taken over by the Tropeano family in 1983 and it is they who have transformed it into what it is today. Beautifully illustrated and from the year 2019, the guides 91 pages are packed with fantastic colour photos (several full page) of some of the superb collection of species on show at the time and includes Bornean orang-utan, chimpanzee, pileated gibbon, L’Hoests monkey, cherry-crowned mangabey, mandrill, gelada baboon, Barbary macaque, Colombian black spider monkey, yellow-breasted capuchin, common squirrel monkey, coppery titi monkey, ring-tail lemur, black & white ruffed lemur, crowned lemur, red-bellied lemur, golden lion tamarin, golden-headed lion tamarin, pied tamarin, African lion, Amur tiger, Amur leopard, cheetah, Malayan sun bear, spotted hyaena, African hunting dog, bush dog, Eurasian grey wolf, fennec fox, red panda, meerkat, smooth-coated otter, small-clawed otter, Patagonian sealion, African elephant, white rhino, maneless zebra, pygmy hippo, reticulated giraffe, blue duiker, reindeer, llama, aardvark, giant anteater, southern tamandua, Linne’s two-toed sloth, ostrich, Darwin’s rhea, Ruppel’s griffon vulture, king vulture, great grey owl, barn owl, rainbow lorikeet, Victoria crowned pigeon, Chilean flamingo, Humboldt penguin, Komodo dragon, rhinoceros iguana, green iguana, giant Asian pond turtle, Burmese python, false tomato frog, poison dart frog, Mexican red-kneed tarantula, Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating spider and owl butterfly among others and these in turn are nicely balanced by the inclusion of some concise and interesting information on all the species mentioned above, as well as other information along with accompanying photographs titled ‘Action For The Wild’, ‘Africa’, ‘Animals on The Move’, ‘UmPhafa Private Nature Reserve’, ‘Asia’, ‘Australasia’, ‘Europe’, ‘North America’, ‘South America’ and ‘Discovery and Learning’. Its pages are set out in an interesting format, and being unused, is in ‘like new/basically ‘new’ condition. Its format is quite substantial and as guide books go, its quality is impressive and is without doubt, an unusual and uncommon zoo guide book that should definitely be of interest to all collectors of zoo guides and zoo memorabilia in general. It really would be a superb addition to any zoo guide and general zoo memorabilia collection alike, so snap it up while you can, as this edition in such wonderful condition, doesn’t come along very often and it will certainly not disappoint.

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