Whipsnade Zoo
Howling good idea to celebrate Halloween
One of the scariest sounds in the world - the howling of wolves - provides the backdrop for an eerily exciting half-term week of fun activities for Halloween at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo.
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Children will get to try to perfect a blood-curdling wolf cry, with the help of our explainers in [...]
Extreme reading among the zoo animals
Two schoolgirl bookworms found some novel places to browse, by taking their homework to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo for some ‘extreme reading’.
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Jessica Ackers and Francesca Cross, both 10, let their imagination run riot when their school asked pupils to think of ‘unusual, funny or surprising’ locations for reading a book, to celebrate Children’s [...]
Rhino declares: ‘That’s not my name!’
“They call him white one, they call him brave, maybe Jabari - that’s not his name!”
Just like the Ting Tings in the chart-topping pop song, ZSL Whipsnade’s Zoo’s 55th African white rhino calf is fed up with everyone getting his name wrong.
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The two-horned youngster, who is four months old, [...]
Giraffe calf gets a name – chosen by you!
Meet Mtoto, ZSL Whipsnade Zoo’s giraffe calf - his name means ‘baby’ in Swahili and was chosen in a vote by visitors to this website.
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Keepers struggled to come up with a name for the newest member of the herd, born to mum Savannah in July and so invited readers [...]