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Sunday 12 January 2014

We Bought a Zoo: the true story behind the film

The story of Benjamin Mee, a British writer who rescued a failing zoo while coming to terms with life as a widower and single father, has been made into a Hollywood film starring Matt Damon

The story behind We Bought a Zoo
 
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Benjamin Mee in the racccoon enclosure at Dartmoor Zoological Park, near Plymouth  Photo: Chloe Dewe Mathews
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Benjamin Mee’s mother, Amelia, sold the family home in Surrey in order to buy Dartmoor Zoological Park Photo: Chloe Dewe Mathews
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Benjamin Mee’s children, Milo and Ella, in the pygmy goat enclosure  Photo: Chloe Dewe Mathews
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Benjamin Mee with Roger the tapir Photo: Chloe Dewe Mathews
Benjamin Mee with his son Milo and Matt Damon on the set of We Bought a Zoo.
 
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Benjamin Mee with his son Milo and Matt Damon on the set of We Bought a Zoo. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox
Director Cameron Crowe with actors Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Colin Ford and Matt Damon on the set of We Bought a Zoo.
 
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Director Cameron Crowe with actors Maggie Elizabeth Jones, Colin Ford and Matt Damon on the set of We Bought a Zoo. Photo: Twentieth Century Fox

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