In the past several zoos in the UK kept one female African and one female Asian elephant in the same enclosure, examples include Paignton and...
£25/35 maybe to go to Yorkshire, Chester or Paradise, but most zoos are in and around the £15-25 mark and whilst Wild Place is £15 to visit if you...
Lots of fair points. Okapi are synonymous with this site and in my opinion they should be the first priority after the Gorilla troop and essential...
Agreed, but there is pushback on keeping them in captivity. What happens if in ten years, Elephants, Giraffes and Rhino's are not advised to be...
There is always pushback somewhere about animal captivity. It (sometimes rightly) forces zoos to be better. I don’t foresee BZP receiving many...
I have to agree, I've only seen pandas at London Zoo Chi Chi in the 1960s and 3 days before she died plus Ming Ming and Mao Mao...
Paignton, Antwerp, Beauval and San Diego all have flamingos at the entrance, and when they were open, Bristol would have also worked. They're also...
I'm not saying, BZP will fail so to speak, but I would say that you are what I would call an invested visitor. You openly say you visit every...
Each to their own but I honestly don’t believe any other animal generates as much interest and engagement as pandas would. Animals such as Lions...
Believe it or not ZooChat is even older than YouTube, as well as iPhones.
This is legitimately one of my favorite ZooChat posts of all time - a fitting date for it I suppose. Thanks for this awesome timeline! I can't...
A look back on the last 20 years, building upon @Zoofan15 2003 ZooChat launches! London Zoo opens 'Happy Families' for otters, tamarins, and...
ODD-TOED UNGULATES This fairly small group of ungulates, containing the equids, rhinos and tapirs, has a long and colourful history at Colchester...
I have only been to Bristol Zoo once, a fair few years ago now (Seal & Penguin Coasts had recently opened) but I felt I had to write something on...
The second Zoo I visited on this trip was the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Providence, Rhode Island. I was also able to visit the Roger Williams...
Are there any updates on African Elephants in England? I know that West Midlands Safari Park would like further Elephants. Furthermore Sutton is...
27. Borrowed backgrounds, several zoos [IMG] Photo: @snowleopard Zoo designers often forget that visitors can see beyond the zoo enclosure and...
1994: VOLUME 41 Eight issues, all represented within this thread: Volume 41 Issue 1 - Edition 250 - January/February 1994 - physical copy...
Considering how often I visited Bristol Zoo from a very early age , I only have 5 Guide books - 1963 edition of Elephant Ride ( lacking front...
EVEN-TOED UNGULATES Many zoos have to make a choice on what they specialise on – Colchester has very much gone down the route of primates and...
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