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The Zoological Society of Glasgow was founded on 14th December 1936 by Edward Hindle, who was a professor of zoology at the University of Glasgow. Its name was later changed to the Zoological Society of Glasgow and West of Scotland.

The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland is a learned society and registered charity based in Edinburgh, Scotland. It was founded by Thomas Haining Gillespie in 1909. In 1913, Edinburgh Town Council bought a large plot of land on Corstorphine Hill for the society - this later opened to the public as Edinburgh Zoo. The society received its Royal Charter in 1913. in 1986, the society acquired the Highland Wildlife Park in Kingussie, Inverness-shire

The Zoo Zürich is a zoo located in Zürich, Switzerland. Opened in 1929, it is the third oldest zoo in Switzerland

The Tisch Family Biblical Zoo in Jerusalem, popularly known as the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, is a zoo located in the Malha neighbourhood of Jerusalem. The zoo was founded by Aharon Shulov, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus. Among Shulov's goals were to provide a research facility for his students; to gather animals, reptiles and birds mentioned in the Bible; and, as he wrote in 1951, to break down the 'invisible wall' between the intellectuals on Mount Scopus and the general public

Acting British Vice Consul at the British Vice Consulate in Duala

The Zoological Garden, Alipore (also informally called the Alipore Zoo or Kolkata Zoo) is India's oldest formally stated zoological park.

The zoo had its roots in a private menagerie established by the Governor General of India, Richard Wellesley, established around 1800 inn his summer home at Barrackpore near Kolkata, as part of the Indian Natural History Project. The first superintendent of the menagerie was the Scottish physician zoologist Francis Buchanan-Hamilton. Sir Stamford Raffles visited the menagerie in 1810, and doubtless used come aspects of the menagerie as an inspiration for London Zoo