Buckingham House menagerie in United Kingdom


Buckingham House menagerie
Typezoo
OwnerQueen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Place London
Country United Kingdom
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History of updates2021-07-11
Latest document update2021-07-11 05:55:51
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Buckingham House menagerie, in London, United Kingdom .


Comments / picturesQueen Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz was the happy recipient of at least six Indian elephants over a period of ten years, which were kept at her Menagerie at Buckingham House, the forerunner of Buckingham Palace, where, like her zebra (known disrespectfully as the Queen’s Ass) they could be viewed, for free, by members of the public. When they died their corpses were, rather conveniently, given to her physician William Hunter and his surgeon brother John Hunter for dissection—some of their parts were preserved in their famous anatomical collections.

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Koehl, Dan (2025). Buckingham House menagerie, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=3315. (archived at the Wayback machine)

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