£20m mystery gift buys London Zoo new hospital where you can watch vets work

£20m mystery gift buys London Zoo new hospital where you can watch vets work1 hour agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleJustin RowlattClimate Editor©ZSLVisitors to London zoo will soon be able to watch live veterinary procedures inside a state-of-the-art new animal hospital thanks to a mystery £20m donation.A viewing gallery will show everything from penguin health checks to ultrasounds on pregnant aardvarks and even porpoise post-mortems - things never before seen publicly in the UK.The health centre has been made possible by the zoo's largest ever gift - from an anonymous benefactor.With the keeping of animals in captivity increasingly questioned, the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), which manages the zoo and marks its 200th anniversary today, hopes the new centre will help…

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