A gibbon at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden, 1996.A gibbon at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden, 1996.
A gibbon at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden, 1996.
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Tracing the history of Hong Kong’s controversial ‘zoo’

The South China Morning Post’s archives reveal how monkeys, emus and storks called the Botanical Gardens home as far back as the 1870s

Topic |   Old Hong Kong
Andrew Sheets

Updated: 10:16am, 13 Nov, 2017

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A gibbon at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden, 1996.A gibbon at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden, 1996.
A gibbon at the Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Garden, 1996.
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