Where was the world’s first zoo?

Where was the world’s first zoo?: Who made the first zoo? – Veronica, age 11, Accokeek, Maryland The truth is historians don’t know who built the first zoo, or when it was built. But we can be confident it happened a very long time ago. Human fascination with animals goes back as far as humans do. In the oldest cave paintings discovered, some of which are up to 40,000 years old, there are more images of animals than people. At some point, humans began to capture and hold animals so they could look at them up close whenever they wanted.