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Most children at the tender age of six or so are full of the most impractical schemes for becoming policemen, firemen or train drivers when they grow up. But when I was that age, I could not be bothered with such mundane ambitions. I knew exactly what I wanted to do, I was going to have my own zoo. At the time, this…

• How did the writer's friends and family react to his childhood ambition?
• Why didn't the writer start a zoo in England?