We Bought a Zoo is an American biographical drama film based on the life of Benjamin Mee, who is best known as the buyer of Dartmoor Zoological Park. In the film, Mee buys an almost ruined zoo with ...

We Bought a Zoo unfolds the heartwarming tale of a widowed father, Benjamin Mee, who embarks on a life-altering journey. He starts anew and buys a rundown zoo to overcome their collective grief. The ...

We may have studied animals; we may love animals. We may hate zoos; we may love them. But who can actually claim to own one? Through chance, the steadfast “look-the-other-way” support of his family ...

There really is a Benjamin Mee, and he and his family really did buy a zoo. The Dartmoor Zoological Park in Devon, England, was opened in 1968, closed in 2006 and then was purchased by the Mee family.

A reader comment in last week’s “War Horse” assessment sparked me to an element of this year’s Oscar season that I hadn’t even noticed: Dartmoor’s time in the spotlight. The Dartmoor moorland in South ...

Some people buy a car or a house, but England's Benjamin Mee bought a zoo. Two years ago, Mee, a father of two and a devoted husband, not only became a changed man, but he also became a zookeeper.

Benjamin Mee had his arm wedged down a storm drain in the middle of a torrential downpour when he heard his mobile ringing. ‘I grabbed it,’ he recalls. ‘It was the American director Cameron Crowe. “I ...

We may have studied animals, we may love animals. We may hate zoos, we may love them. But who can actually claim to own one? Benjamin Mee. Through chance, the steadfast “look-the-other-way” support of ...