Johannesburg Zoo

This guide to the Johannesburg Zoo follows Sir Percy Fitzpatrick, a mining financier turned conservationist, and Mac, a three-legged lion he rescued in the 1890s for his private menagerie near Zoo Lake. You'll hear how that menagerie became the seed collection for the zoo's founding in 1904, and about Fitzpatrick's real-life companion, a scruffy Staffordshire terrier named Jock, who inspired the book he wrote for his children. A listening tip: look for the giraffe and antelope enclosures, home to descendants of Fitzpatrick's original gift.