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Brookfield Zoo Chicago, also known as the Chicago Zoological Park, is a zoo located in the Chicago suburb of Brookfield, Illinois. It opened on July 1st 1934 and quickly gained international recognition for using moats and ditches instead of cages to separate animals from visitors and from other animals. The zoo was also the first in America to exhibit giant pandas.

In 1919 Edith Rockefeller McCormick donated land she had received from her father as a wedding gift to the Cook County Forest Preserve District for development as a zoological garden. The district added 98 acres to that plot and in 1921 the Chicago Zoological Society was established

Sweeper at ZSL London Zoo

Gate Official at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Zoo Shop Assistant at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo

Hugh Culling Eardley Childers was a British Liberal statesman of the nineteenth century. He is perhaps best known for his reform efforts at the Admiralty and the War Office. Later in his career, as Chancellor of the Exchequer, his attempt to correct a budget shortfall led to the fall of the Liberal government led by William Gladstone

Painter in the Works Department at ZSL London Zoo

On the occasion of the Rt. Hon. Edward Heath's visit to China in June 1974, the Chinese Government made a gift of two Giant Pandas to the British people. Female Ching Ching means 'Crystal Bright'. Ching Ching came from the Wanglang Reserve in Pingwu county, northern Szechwan.

In 1981 Ching Ching made headlines following announcements that she may have been pregnant via artificial insemination, but that was false. Ching Ching and Chia Chia did not produce any cubs. Ching Ching is on display at the National Museum of Scotland