Yuanshan Park Area of Taipei Expo Park
Former zoo grounds where wartime animal culling once played out beside a Neolithic shell mound.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Yuanshan Park area of Taipei Expo Park follows the site's life as Maruyama Zoo, opened by a settler known only as Oe and soon taken over by the Japanese colonial government as Taiwan's first public zoo. For most of its decades the zoo was ordinary: families on Sunday outings, students on graduation trips, monkeys and deer behind wire fences, until the war years changed what the grounds were used for.
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