Perth Zoo
Riverside wildlife park showcasing native Australian and exotic species since the eighteen nineties.
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About this audio guide
Perth Zoo in South Perth has run since eighteen ninety-eight, and this guide follows the animal trade behind it, centered on Tricia, an Asian elephant taken from the wild in Vietnam and sold through an animal trafficker before arriving by wooden crate at Fremantle Harbour in nineteen sixty-three. It traces how the zoo bought, renamed, and later sold on the elephants that arrived with her. Listen near the old elephant enclosure, where that trade left its longest mark.
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