Last year, Whipsnade Zoo welcomed many new animals into the world as part of its essential conversation programme. To kick off 2025, staff have been going around the zoo to count the mammals ...

2024 saw the arrival of many new animals for Whipsnade Zoo. In Spring, the Zoo’s brand-new habitat ‘Monkey Forest’ opened, which introduced four rare East-Asian species to the Zoo ...

While men fell to bullets and bombs everywhere, the world’s longest venomous snake ever recorded was also caught in the ...

Zookeepers have conducted a stock take with a difference, by counting every animal on the site - including lions, flamingos and bears. There are more than 245 species at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire.

Keepers at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire often bribe the animals with their favourite treats to encourage them on to the scales. The information is used to track the health and wellbeing of the ...

The stockily built animals had been classified as extinct-in-the-wild until horses bred at Whipsnade Zoo were successfully reintroduced to Mongolia. Watching the foal's first steps gave staff "an ...

Edinburgh was the first British zoo to be inspired by the idea of displaying animals without bars, opening in 1913. Zoological parks opened at Chester and Whipsnade in 1931. These were the first ...

With over 9,500 amazing animals to discover, including rhinos, tigers and elephants, there are loads of reasons to be wild about Whipsnade Zoo. BBC Homepage Skip to content ...

President Joe Biden is set to ban new offshore oil and gas development across 625 million acres (250 million hectares) of U.S. coastal territory, Bloomberg News reported on Friday. Biden to ban ...

Firefighters on Tuesday held the line against two massive wildfires that have ravaged parts of Los Angeles for the past week, even as desert winds and a parched landscape presented extremely ...