Auckland Zoo: 100 Years, 100 Stories

Ma Shwe, the nine-year-old Indian elephant at the Auckland Zoo, peering over the wall of her enclosure in 1974 (PHOTO: New Zealand Herald)

A postcard of Auckland Zoo (PHOTO: Averil Wallen Collection)

Seals on view at the Auckland Zoo circa 1950 (PHOTO: Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections 895-A72889 Copyright: Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga)

The Kenna family at Pakuranga at the Auckland Zoo in 1968 (PHOTO: New Zealand Herald)

1979 A hippopotumus at Auckland Zoo 20 March (PHOTO: Paul Estcourt)

The new Indonesian swamp forest habitat within a large climate-controlled tropical dome (PHOTO: supplied)

A tiger aerial walkway in the new lowland habitat (PHOTO: supplied)

The South East Asia Jungle Track, the biggest project in the zoo's 100-year history, has a lake and wetlands, a lowlands habitat, high canopy primate habitat and a swamp forest habitat. (PHOTO: Supplied)

Auckland Zoo vet Dr James Chatterton with kakapo (PHOTO: supplied)

An otter in its new habitat (PHOTO: Supplied)

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