Edward Cross (mai mallakar gida)

Edward Cross (an yi masa baftisma a ranar 3 ga watan Fabrairun shekara ta 1774 - 26 ga watan Satumba shekara ta 1854) ya kasance mai mallakar gidan zoo na Ingila kuma dillalin dabbobi.

Cross ya yi aiki ga Stephen Polito, mai mallakar dabbobi a Exeter Exchange a Strand. 'Yar Cross ta auri ɗan'uwan Polito, kuma Cross ta sayi gidan dabbobi bayan mutuwar Polito a 1814. An gudanar da managerie a wannan shafin daga 1773 a gasar tare da Royal Menagerie a Hasumiyar Landan tare da zakuna, tigers, birai, da sauran nau'o'in halittu, duk an kulle su a cikin ƙarfe a cikin ƙananan ɗakuna. Gidan dabbobi ya kasance ainihin abin jan hankali ga baƙi wanda ke buɗewa ga jama'a gaba ɗaya. Wordsworth da Byron ne suka ziyarta, wanda ya yi rikodin kallon "Tiger sup", yana jin daɗin ƙaunar hyena ga mai kula da shi, da kuma dabarun da giwa ya yi da akwati.The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals, George Gordon Byron, Adamant Media Corporation, 2002; , page 319.

Edwin Landseer da Jacques-Laurent Agasse ne suka zana dabbobi a cikin tarin. Masana kimiyya kamar Joshua Brookes da J. E. Gray sun ziyarce shi. Gray ya ba da sunan Rhinoceros crossii don girmama shi (yanzu a matsayin ma'anar Sumatran rhinoceros, Dicerorhinus sumatrensis). 

Cross ya sake ba da sunan tarin Royal Grand National Menagerie, kuma ya yi amfani da mai tsaron ƙofa wanda ya yi ado a matsayin Yeoman na Mai Tsaro. Yanayin rayuwa ga dabbobi sun kasance marasa kyau sosai har ma a farkon karni na 19. Yanayin ya zama ba za a iya jurewa ba bayan giwayensa, Chunee, ya zama wanda ba za a sarrafa shi ba kuma ya kashe mai kula. A ƙarshe an kashe Chunee ta hanyar 'yan bindiga daga Somerset House a ranar 1 ga Maris 1826. Cross ya yi ƙoƙari ya sayar da tarin ga sabuwar Zoological Society of London a cikin 1826 da 1828, amma an ƙi tayin a lokuta biyu. [ana buƙatar ƙa'ida][citation needed]

An rushe  Exeter a cikin 18, a matsayin wani ɓangare na ci gaba gaba gaba ɗaya ga Strand, kuma Cross ya tura mazajen zuwa King's Mews kusa da Trafalgar Square (yanzu shafin yanar gizon National Gallery). An sayar da wasu daga cikin dabbobi zuwa sabon gidan zoo na London a Regent's Park. A cikin 1831, ya sayar da sauran dabbobi ga Cibiyar Nazarin Littattafai, Kimiyya da Zoological ta Surrey - wata cibiyar da ya kafa - don £ 3,500. Cross ya zama mai kula da sabon lambunan Surrey Zoological, kuma an tura dabbobin zuwa Royal Surrey Gardens, a cikin filin Walworth Manor House a Kennington. Yawancin dabbobin da ba a saba gani ba an ajiye su a cikin babban ɗakin ajiyar gilashi mai laushi,   a kewayon tare da fiye da  m2) na gilashi. Tarin ya fadada a cikin shekaru masu zuwa don haɗawa da zakuna, damisa, Rhinoceros na Indiya, Orangutan, da giraffes da yawa.

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