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Howletts Wild Animal Park

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Howletts Wild Animal Park (formerly known as Howletts Zoo) was set up as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall near Canterbury, Kent. [1]

21 relations: African elephant, BBC, Bekesbourne, Bison, Black rhinoceros, Black-and-white colobus, Canterbury, England, Gorilla, Hythe, Kent, John Aspinall (zoo owner), Kent, Lion-tailed macaque, Listed building, Pallas's cat, Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Roar (UK TV series), Steve Irwin, Western lowland gorilla, Wilderness, Zoo.

African elephant

African elephants are elephants of the genus Loxodonta.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Bekesbourne

Bekesbourne is a village near Canterbury in Kent, South East England.

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Bison

Bison are large, even-toed ungulates in the genus Bison within the subfamily Bovinae.

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Black rhinoceros

The black rhinoceros or hook-lipped rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) is a species of rhinoceros, native to eastern and southern Africa including Botswana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

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Black-and-white colobus

Black-and-white colobuses (or colobi) are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus, native to Africa.

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Canterbury

Canterbury is a historic English cathedral city and UNESCO World Heritage Site, which lies at the heart of the City of Canterbury, a local government district of Kent, England.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Gorilla

Gorillas are ground-dwelling, predominantly herbivorous apes that inhabit the forests of central Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Hythe, Kent

Hythe is a small coastal market town on the edge of Romney Marsh, in the district of Folkestone and Hythe on the south coast of Kent.

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John Aspinall (zoo owner)

John Victor Aspinall (11 June 1926 – 29 June 2000) was an English zoo owner and gambling club host.

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Kent

Kent is a county in South East England and one of the home counties.

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Lion-tailed macaque

The lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus), or the wanderoo, is an Old World monkey endemic to the Western Ghats of South India.

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Listed building

A listed building, or listed structure, is one that has been placed on one of the four statutory lists maintained by Historic England in England, Historic Environment Scotland in Scotland, Cadw in Wales, and the Northern Ireland Environment Agency in Northern Ireland.

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Pallas's cat

The Pallas's cat (Otocolobus manul), also called the manul, is a small wild cat with a broad but fragmented distribution in the grasslands and montane steppes of Central Asia.

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Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

Port Lympne Reserve near the town of Hythe in Kent, England is set in and incorporates the historic mansion and landscaped gardens designed by architect Sir Herbert Baker for Sir Philip Sassoon during World War I. The estate near Lympne was purchased in 1973 by John Aspinall to solve lack of space at Howletts Wild Animal Park, and it was opened to the public in 1976.

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Roar (UK TV series)

Roar is a programme broadcast on CBBC, in the UK, for children.

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Steve Irwin

Stephen Robert Irwin (22 February 1962 – 4 September 2006), nicknamed "The Crocodile Hunter", was an Australian zookeeper, conservationist and television personality.

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Western lowland gorilla

The western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) is one of two subspecies of the western gorilla (Gorilla gorilla) that lives in montane, primary and secondary forests and lowland swamps in central Africa in Angola, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Republic of the Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.

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Wilderness

Wilderness or wildland is a natural environment on Earth that has not been significantly modified by human activity.

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Zoo

A zoo (short for zoological garden or zoological park and also called an animal park or menagerie) is a facility in which all animals are housed within enclosures, displayed to the public, and in which they may also breed.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howletts_Wild_Animal_Park

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