\paperw3360 \margr0\margl0\ATXph16380 \plain \fs20 \f1 \fs22 Animals from far-away shores have been major and lucrative attractions since well before the days of the London Zoo.
They have included human freaks, tame bears which often danced, monkeys, even tigers and other wild animals. In August 1684 a contemporary chronicler recorded the astounding arrival of ôthe strange beast called the Rynnocerosö which ômore resembled a h
uge enormous Swine, than any other Beast among usö. And this was saying quite a lot for a man who lived in the age when Bedlam, the asylum for the insane at Bishopsgate, was a major entertainment centre that attracted countless spectators.\par
