''We Bought a Zoo'' is a book published in 2008 by Benjamin Mee about his experiences in purchasing the Dartmoor Wildlife Park in

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, England in 2006. Renamed the Dartmoor Zoological Park, it was reopened to the public the following year. The book was loosely adapted into a film of the same name that was released in 2011. The book was published by

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().

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