Charities
By Animals Correspondent Christmas sacks for gorillas and festive stockings for saki monkeys were gifted by zookeepers at London Zoo this week, as the world-famous conservation zoo celebrated its Magic of Christmas event, running until Sunday 4 January. London Zoo’s gorillas were treated to festive sacks filled with their
Animals
By Animals Correspondent Curious Humboldt penguins (Spheniscus humboldti) waddled over for a closer look as they inspected a specially made advent calendar, packed with fishy festive treats, at London Zoo’s Penguin Beach. The playful moment marked the official start of the Christmas countdown at the conservation zoo, delighting visitors
Animals
By Animals Correspondent London Zoo’s adorable capybara pair have moved into a brand-new spa-inspired pad, complete with two pools, mud-bath wallows and climate-controlled zones – and have ventured outdoors for the first time since moving. Gizmo and Kiwi were originally planned to enjoy a temporary city-break at the conservation zoo,
Animals
By Conservation Correspondent More than 7,000 Extinct in the Wild and Critically Endangered Partula snails have been released across four islands in French Polynesia—the largest reintroduction of the rare species to date. The conservation team used a tiny white UV-reflective mark on each shell to help track the
Education
By Community Correspondent Teachers are being invited to swap their projectors and paint pots for a day out at the world’s oldest scientific zoo this autumn, as London Zoo offers the nation’s educators free entry for World Teacher Day. The world-famous Zoo, run by the global conservation charity
Animals
By Animals Correspondent SILVERBACK gorilla Kiburi, the 21-year-old patriarch of London Zoo’s western lowland gorilla troop, was given an initial clean bill of health this week – following a mighty trip to the vets for a full health check. The 177kg primate had been under observation after contending with recurrent
Animals
By Charities Correspondent The world’s largest rodents were among the animals getting their vital statistics recorded at London Zoo this week at the conservation Zoo’s Annual Weigh In. Gizmo and Kiwi, a pair of capybaras joined the Humboldt penguins, giant Galapagos tortoises, the ring-tail lemur troop, giant katydids,
Animals
By Joel,16, Jill Dando News Correspondent Summer is surely around the corner, as our otter pups have decided it’s warm enough to take their first swims. The Asian short-clawed otter pups, born in January to first-time mum Midge, have spent their first few months tucked inside their nesting
Animals
By Jill Dando News A rare species of Polynesian tree snail once declared Extinct in the Wild has officially been downlisted, thanks to a decades-long conservation programme led by ZSL — the charity behind London Zoo — and its global conservation partners. The Partula tohiveana snail — wiped out in the wild due