Guess the zoo

No.

Second sentence: a local television personality, accompanied by her popular children's TV puppet show characters, performed at the zoo’s opening ceremony.

 

Gah. You’re correct. You’re turn.

 

Possibly the only zoo to enforce a dress code on everyday visitors, even going so far as to offer alternative items of clothing to guests.

 

Dubai zoo or Columbian park zoo?

 

Nope

 

London zoo?

 

No, but right country

 

Chester?

 

No

 

Paington, Dudley or Bristol?

 

No to all three, it was once the largest private zoo in England

 

Blackpool zoo?

 

No

 

This is a hard one. Marwell zoo?

 

Nope, I might have been a bit mean as it is not just a zoo but that is the only part of the place I have ever visited

 

Ok. Another hint please.

 

The company that owns the park operates 127 attractions in 27 countries, including a rather popular museum based around a famous sculptor

 

Chessington zoo?

 

Yes, well done, I bent the rules a bit as it is a theme park as well but it is still a zoo
Apparently in 2013 guests were forbidden from wearing animal print patterns in order to avoid confusing animals on the Zufari, guests are provided with a grey jumpsuit and if refused, they are asked to leave (this may not still be true but I remember the story)
The zoo was opened by Reginald Stuart Goddard in 1931 to house his private animal collection, at that time the largest in England.
The museum is obviously Madame Tussauds, operated by Merlin Entertainment's which acquired Chessington in 1978

 

First sentence: This zoo was originally named The Herbert Fleishhacker Zoo.