ABSTRACT
West Berlin Zoo has always had on display a larger and more comprehensive collection of exotic animals than any other zoo in the world. The West Berlin Zoo keeps important collections of fish and invertebrates. The opening of the restaurant and the inauguration in 1870 of regular concerts by military bands had an immediate effect on the popularity of the Zoo. The financial affairs of the Zoo had improved very little by the time Dr. Bodinus died in 1884. He had increased the collection substantially, and had made the Berlin Zoo world-famous for its fine new buildings. Some very interesting animals had lived in the Zoo before Dr. Ludwig Heck's time. A Tasmanian wolf (or thylacine), a very rare creature, had been acquired in 1864, and one of the only two live quagga, then extinct in its native South Africa, died in Berlin in 1875.
