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Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "Howletts Wild Animal Park (formerly known as Howletts Zoo) was set up as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall near Canterbury, Kent. The animal collection was opened to the public in 1975. To give more room for the animals another estate at Port Lympne near Hythe, Kent was purchased in 1973, and opened to the public as Port Lympne Zoo in 1976.The collection is known for being unorthodox, for the encouragement of close personal relationships between staff and animals, and for their breeding of rare and endangered species. Steve Irwin visited the park in 2004 and described the park's gorillas as \"the finest in the world\".Since 1984 both parks have been owned by The John Aspinall Foundation, a charity. Following Aspinall's death of he was buried in front of the mansion house and a memorial was built next to the grave near the bison.A later extension to Howletts was an open-topped enclosure for black and white colobus, just behind the entrance."@en }

• Howletts_Wild_Animal_Park abstract "Howletts Wild Animal Park (formerly known as Howletts Zoo) was set up as a private zoo in 1957 by John Aspinall near Canterbury, Kent. The animal collection was opened to the public in 1975. To give more room for the animals another estate at Port Lympne near Hythe, Kent was purchased in 1973, and opened to the public as Port Lympne Zoo in 1976.The collection is known for being unorthodox, for the encouragement of close personal relationships between staff and animals, and for their breeding of rare and endangered species. Steve Irwin visited the park in 2004 and described the park's gorillas as \"the finest in the world\".Since 1984 both parks have been owned by The John Aspinall Foundation, a charity. Following Aspinall's death of he was buried in front of the mansion house and a memorial was built next to the grave near the bison.A later extension to Howletts was an open-topped enclosure for black and white colobus, just behind the entrance.".