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Education Department and Centre for Life Studies
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- The Zoo's Education Department and Centre for Life Studies is used for the education of school parties, teachers and others, including zoo staff. It is in the far north western corner of the Zoo ground, off the track of most visitors, and on a site that allows access outside of Zoo hours. Built 1973-1975, partly funded by the Wolfson Foundation; Sir Hugh Casson, Neville Conder and Partners (Anthony Reich), architects; W M Glendinning Limited, contractors. The two-storey north-west wing, the Centre for Life Studies, was an afterthought. It was originally an Inner London Education Authority Teachers' Centre and was designed with spaces for tuition, research and the accommodation of small animals
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East Service Gate Buildings
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- The East Service Gate is to the north of the Pavilion Building. To its east there is a lodge that was originally the Head Keeper's Quarters. Given its probable date of construction its architect may have been Anthony Salvin Junior. Latterly it has been used as a storage area and as meeting rooms. Lodge built 1863-64. Extended about 1909 when service gate was formed. West of the service entrance stands a simple brick shed which was built as a bakery for the nearby Regent and Pavilion Buildings, to replace the bakery in the basement of the Refreshment Rooms building (now the Parrot House). It was converted for use as a supplies building. Former bakery, 1929. Converted 1961-62.
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West Service Gate Buildings
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- The buildings around the West Service Gate, to the north of the Mappin Terraces, derive from a 1950 plan for a new service complex that was incorporated into the 1958 redevelopment scheme prepared under Sir Hugh Casson. They were the first part of this scheme to be executed as the shifting of supply and works functions from the Middle Gardens to this site made space available for the Cotton Terraces. Built 1951 and 1958-60, Franz Stengelhofen, architect. (Services Building and Garage, 1960. Works Department, 1958-59. Boiler House, 1951; Incinerator added 1959, replaced 1982.
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Keepers' Lodge
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- The Keepers' Lodge, built in 1903, is a divided block of staff housing. The east section consists of a house designed for a head keeper. The west section consists of lodgings (eight small bedrooms, a common room, bathroom and kitchen) intended for resident helpers.
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South Canal Bank Staff Flats
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- The South Canal Bank Staff Flats were built as part of the landscaping of the whole of the Zoo's south canal bank. They were needed because the contemporaneous development of the Cotton Terraces involved the demolition of a Superintendent's House. Built 1962-63, Franz Stengelhofen and Sir Peter Shepheard, architects.
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Stealing the Cubs Statue
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- The statue entitled Stealing the Subs stands to the west of Three Island Pond. Carved from marble at larger than life size, it represents a man fighting a lioness over two lion cubs. In recent years the statue had been moved back from a more prominent position on a three-step plinth. Installed 1906, donated by J B Wolff; Henri Teixeira de Mattos, sculptor.
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Bear and Child Statue
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- At the centre of the circulation area at the east end of the Children's Zoo there is a small bronze statue of a child riding a bear. It was installed in 1928, donated in memory of Sigismund Goetze by his widow; E M A, sculptor. Moved about 1977. The statue was moved to the Library in 2013.
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Bear Cub Statue (Winnie Memorial)
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- At the south western corner of the Reptile House stands a bronze statue of a bear cub on a brick plinth. Nearby there is a bronze dedication plaque. The statue commemorates Winnie, the American Black Bear from Winnipeg, who was resident on the Mappin Terraces from 1914 to 1934 and whose name was adopted by A A Milne for Winnie-the-Pooh. The statue was unveiled by Christopher Robin. Installed 1981, donated by the Trustees of Pooh Properties; Lorne McKean, sculptor.
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Globe Sundial
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- To the east of Three Island Pond there is a sundial in the form of an aluminium globe. Installed 1989, donated by Alcan Aluminium Limited; Wendy Taylor, sculptor.
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Rainforest Life and Night Life
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- Rainforest Life is a walk-through indoor exhibit that houses several different species of rainforest animals. Among the species in the main forest walk-through are two-toed sloths, golden lion tamarins, emperor tamarins, red titi monkeys, red-faced spider monkeys, big hairy armadillos, Geoffrey's marmosets, cotton-top tamarins, Goeldi's marmosets, southern tamandua and Rodrigues flying fox. The building also has a darkened area called Nightlife, which houses nocturnal animals such as Mohol bushbaby, Seba's short-tailed bats, slender lorises, pottos, rakali, Malagasy giant rats and blind cave fish.
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