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Housekeeper in the Lodge at ZSL London Zoo

Lieutenant-Colonel Arthur John Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham, was a British Army officer and courtier. He was Private Secretary to Queen Victoria during the last few years of her reign. He was the maternal grandfather of Lord Adeane, Private Secretary to Elizabeth II from 1853 to 1972

Lavatory Attendant at ZSL London Zoo

George Parker Bidder was a British marine biologist who primarily studied sponger. He was President of the Marine Biological Association from 1939-1945.

He studied zoology at University College London under Ray Lankester for one year before joining Trinity College, Cambridge, where he took the Natural Sciences Tripos until 1886. In 1887 he began working at the Stazione Zoological in Naples, Italy. He joined the MBA in 1893, becoming a member of the council in 1899

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

Giovanni Giuseppe Bianconi, sometimes J. Josephi or Joseph Bianconi, was an Italian zoologist, herpetologist, botanist and geologist.

He was a Professor of Natural History at the University of Bologna. In the field of herpetology he described new species of amphibians and reptiles.

In 1874, Bianconi published a book on "independent creations", which utilised zoological arguments against Darwinism. Bianconi argued that "enlightened application of laws of mechanics, physics, physiology" led to the conclusion that every part of an organism had been created by the "unlimited intelligence" of God.

Bianconi argued that homologous structures are explained on mechanical principles. Darwin briefly mentioned Bianconi and rejected his arguments in a footnote in his The Descent of Man

Labourer at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo