Zona de identificação
Tipo de entidade
Pessoa coletiva
Forma autorizada do nome
Calcutta Zoo
Forma(s) paralela(s) de nome
Formas normalizadas do nome de acordo com outras regras
Outra(s) forma(s) de nome
- Zoological Garden, Alipore
- Alipore Zoo
- Kolkata Zoo
identificadores para entidades coletivas
Área de descrição
Datas de existência
1875
Histórico
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