Cologne Zoo--150 years of captive animal history

Pictured above and below are the Ape House in 1911, built in the Moorish style preferred by Cologne's first director, Heinrich Bodinus, who was later Berlin's director. Carl Hagenbeck is credited with the first naturalistic display of animals in 1907 at Stellingen, but of note is that fact that in 1877 a naturalistic rock sea lion pool was built at Cologne where the first California sea lion birth in Europe occured a year later. I am not trying to dump on Hagenbeck's legacy, but as Cologne was only a day's wagon ride away from Cologne, I'm just saying......




Above is the Ape House is 1882, when the Rhine peaked and flooded her banks.