The History of the Tower of London

Tower of London had its own menagerie topped up by a 1204 expedition by King John who brought back three shiploads of lions and leopards. The Van Amberg Menagerie performed in New York in 1862 with a show that featured lions, tigers and quote, performing ponies who fire off pistols. In the 1890s, even the Segal Cooper department store housed a live elephant for a month until a local zoo bought it for $2,000. Pablo Escobar's Hacienda Napolis is 120 miles east of Medellín, home to smuggled hippos, giraffes, zebras,. rhinos, zebra-like animals as well