Staff at London Zoo readied their clipboards and calculators on Friday as they began to count more than 10,000 animals during the annual stocktake. The stocktake is a requirement of the zoo’s ...

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With bunches of lettuce and bucketloads of nuts, London Zoo kicked off its annual animal count Friday, coaxing everything from goats to gorillas out of their enclosures for the celebrated stocktake.

It's that time of year again - when keepers at London zoo tally tortoises, add anteaters and count camels in their annual stock take. They do it to keep tabs on the over 10,000 animals currently ...

Animals residing at the Houston Zoo were delighted - and a little perplexed - by a rare fall of snow. Video shared by the zoo showed a young Asian elephant named Teddy playing in his enclosure ...