Melbourne Zoo

This guide to Melbourne Zoo follows Queenie, an elephant brought from India in 1902 who spent decades carrying children on rides around these grounds, becoming one of Melbourne's most photographed animals. It turns to a September afternoon in 1944, when a wartime keeper named Wilfred Lawson, new to her care and rough with her that day, walked her back to her yard after the rides had ended. Walk this same path today, the very circuit she carried generations of Melbourne's children along.