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Blackpool Zoo has welcomed its first critically endangered Bornean orangutan baby for more than two decades after first-time mother Jingga gave birth in June. Visitors can now see the infant, which keepers have confirmed as male, in the orangutan house, which reopened on 1st July following a short period of closure to allow mother and … Read more
This weekend will see the return of Monkey Life to our screens, the long running documentary series following life at the world’s biggest primate rescue centre – Monkey World in Dorset. Now in its 11th series, this edition of Monkey Life was filmed over a year and follows Dr Alison Cronin and the team as … Read more
Benny & Nia, a pair of young white-throated guenons, arrived at Monkey World in Dorset this week after being rescued from Lebanon. The incredibly rare monkeys were confiscated by Lebanese authorities at Beiruit airport after being smuggled from Accra, Ghana. White-throated guenons are a species vulnerable to extinction and native only to small regions of … Read more
Twin pygmy slow loris, born at Paignton Zoo, Devon in February, have become much easier for visitors to spot this month as they venture out and about with parents and experienced breeding pair Charlie and Edna. Weighing in at just 25/30 grams when born, the tiny youngsters join a larger than average collection of pygmy slow loris … Read more
2016 has been one of the best yet for animal breeding at Twycross Zoo. When staff began their yearly stocktake of all the zoo’s animals on 1st January 2017, 41 babies will have been added to the zoo’s count. Twycross Zoo is dedicated to wildlife conservation, and many species at the zoo are part of European … Read more
Blackpool Zoo has welcomed more than 50 tiny faces to its line up of really wild residents so far in 2016. From critically endangered species on the brink of extinction to the just downright cute, each and every one of them has brought joy to keepers and visitors alike. The largest baby to be born … Read more
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