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Brunch with Santa
BRUNCH WITH SANTA, 2008 - NOW BOOKING
Brunch with Santa has been a very popular event with the kids for 3 years, so we are carrying on with the tradition again in 2008.
Suitable for 5 - 11 year old boys and girls, Brunch is an ideal [...]
Glove puppet helps pygmy hippo start eating
A pygmy hippo who had been put off eating has been lured back to the trough by a glove puppet
Chico caused keepers at his home in Heythrop Zoological Gardens concern when he began to refuse food.
But the animal was lured back to his trough under the watchful eye of Gloria, a glove puppet based [...]
Prague Zoo can go on using their horse logo
By Elen Prague
Source: http://www.abcprague.com
Prague Zoo can go on using their horse logo, the court decided. This is the end of the long-term dispute, when the artist Michal Cihlar sues Prague Zoo for using the logo. The artist made it for the Zoo in 1998, but due to their mostly personal dispute he retreat from [...]
11Nov2008 | Sara | 0 comments | ContinuedZoo told to fix fences
By Mark Hughes
One of Britain’s top zoos has been ordered to fix its fences amid fears that lions and tigers could escape, a report obtained by The Independent shows.
Government experts demanded tougher security for the Big Cats enclosure at Chessington World of Adventures in Surrey, to protect visitors from being mauled.
Fencing at the rear [...]
Chester Zoo to star in TV series from Monday
Nov 5 2008 Chester Chronicle
TELEVISION viewers will be taken behind the scenes at Chester Zoo with the return of the popular TV series Zoo Days.
Zoo Days, which gives an insight into the highs and lows of life at the 110-acre zoo, will be screened on Five from Monday, November 10.
The Zoo Days series, [...]
Praguescape: Cubism at the zoo
By Kristina Alda /
Prague Daily Monitor /
October 29, 2008
Chances are not many zoos in the world house a stack of disassembled cubist buildings. The two wooden houses, designed by renowned Czech cubist architect Josef Gočár in 1920, have been lying in storage at the lower end of the Prague zoo property since the 2002 [...]
ZOO HOPES FOR PATTER OF TINY LION PAWS
BLACKPOOL Zoo is hoping for the patter of tiny lion paws!
Keepers at the award-winning attraction have begun introducing the new young male lion, Wallace, to the zoo’s three lionesses as part of the African Lion Breeding Programme.
It is hoped that all four will be living together by the end of the year and Blackpool Zoo [...]
Sir David Attenborough sparks love in frogs during zoo visit
Love is in the air: a stripy frog, not a horny toad Photo: PA
After being at the zoo for three years without mating, eight Mission Golden-eyed Tree frogs finally did the deed during his visit.
To the surprise and delight of keepers at Reptile House, the stripy frogs - which are native to South America - [...]
Super Lambanana settling in at Chester Zoo
CHESTER Zoo has welcomed a ‘ewe-nique’ new exhibit. Flora the Superlambanana is settling in for a stay at the zoo, where visitors will be able to see her watching over the Asiatic lions for the next few weeks.
Flora has been acquired by tourism board Visit Chester and Cheshire to help celebrate Cheshire’s Year of Gardens [...]
Tahiti trip gives Chester Zoo an insight into rare snail breed
By Staff reporter
THEY weigh little more than a gramme and are no bigger than three centimetres in length, but Chester Zoo is throwing its weight behind a conservation programme to protect some diminutive animals.
Partula snails are critically endangered and, in some cases, many species are now extinct in the wild.
Chester Zoo is home to three [...]
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