Starting off 2024 with a visit report! As mentioned in the previous thread, the reptile house has been boarded up with a plan for a future...
From a BBC Article: Bangladesh's critically endangered wild elephants have received a court order banning their adoption and protecting them from...
Hi all, with Christmas coming up I'm looking into acquiring a macro lens so I can better do close up shots (especially would be useful for smaller...
Across mainland Europe and North America it seems like quite a few zoos have very impressive large aquariums within their grounds but in the UK it...
Climate change: Thousands of penguins die in Antarctic ice breakup A catastrophic die-off of emperor penguin chicks has been observed in the...
Moderator note: this thread was split from the news thread: https://www.zoochat.com/community/threads/london-zoo-news-2023.486291/ I don't...
Curious to hear what ZooChatters think the best safari park in the UK is as I think it could be an interesting discussion. I've added a poll to...
Was thinking about sea turtles today and wondered if any ZooChatter has seen all 7 species? Of course not all of them are in captivity but I'm...
A lot of us will have seen the countless debates on whether Shedd or Georgia is the best aquarium in the US (with MBA also sometimes thrown in)....
Five years ago I made a thread asking people what species they would like to see at Chester, I was quite new to ZooChat at the time but after...
Was trying to think of which European zoos still hold both elephant species since Tierpark Berlin stopped and could only think of Pairi Daiza. Was...
This story does not seem to have been as mainstream here in the UK as I believe it should be (I can imagine it is much bigger over in Germany and...
With Prehistoric Planet launching next month on Apple TV+ I thought other ZooChatters may want to discuss it and other older prehistoric nature...
This was something I noticed a while ago but didn't bother making a thread about until now. Why is there such a lack of caprines kept in UK zoos?...
Record-breaking bloody hunt in Denmark's Faroe Islands slaughters almost 1,500 dolphins Absolutely insane, what does a small archipelago need to...
Okapi born :) Chester Zoo welcomes birth of rare baby okapi
I saw there was some old threads about this but I thought it was worth discussing in a new one. I used to go to the woods around Eastham Ferry in...
When I am on mobile I can't navigate the site for more than 10 seconds before my page completley switches to some 'amazon giftcard entry' or...
Today is exactly one year since I joined ZooChat, that went very fast... I am really grateful to be here and have talked to many awesome people....
Last year saw Berlin and Rhenen aquire pandas and the birth at Beauval. 2016 also had the Belgian cubs which is quite recent. There appears to be...
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