bristol zoo

Visited today and have a few updates A path has been reopened so visitors have access to the bird hide in webbs brake and as long as your quiet you get amazing views of the native birds Third visit in a row where I haven’t spotted the lac alaotran lemurs which is peculiar as every other visit...

Visited 01/01/23 saw wilder and monte Allen, I don’t think they’re active currently Saw most of the animals minus rrh and didn’t go to bear wood and gelada rocks, saw all the lemurs which was nice cause I hadn’t seen the red bellied lemurs for a while Lots of the vegetation has been cut back...

With lots of discussion on the Bristol Zoo thread regarding its closure, I thought that it would be nice to have a place to talk about our memories and experiences... I'll get something posted in the next few days, but for now... I'll leave it to you guys :(

Just wanted a thread to speculate the remaining species that Bristol zoo haven’t announced and what areas people think will be in stage 2&3 and what animals will be in them :)

Part 1: Overpriced breakfasts and mental lions. Bristol Zoo Gardens, since my childhood I have longed to visit this historic zoo so it was a great shock to me when the Zoo last year announced it would be closing forever and relocating to the Wild Place project in late 2022. Having long mulled...

I was reading an issue of the EAZA "Zooquaria" magazine last night that was on the topic of invertebrate conservation in European zoos. There was quite a lot of information on the ex-situ conservation programes for inverts that have been developed by the Bristol Zoological Society. This was...

Lesser Malayan Mouse Deer has been born.

Here are a series of online lectures called "Stories from the field" each presented by a scientist from Bristol Zoological Society / Bristol zoo discussing their respective conservation work and focal species. Lecture on Bristol's in-situ to conserve the endangered white clawed crayfish in...

Museums, shops, restaurants all get government funding and most of them are open or allowed to open on the 15th, but zoos have they have to shut and they are struggling without the income from us. Beaches, gardens, horse racing all opening soon. Why not zoos. This is crazy. Please sign now at...

The mouse lemurs are no longer on display in Moonlight World and no longer labeled. The brown rats have also gone and their little cellar is boarded up. The bamboo lemurs have an infant that's about a week old. Infant Bourret's box turtle Cuora bourreti and keeled box turtle C. mouhotii are on...

Just stumbled across the author of this book on Twitter. This book, due to be released in February 2018, looks at the history of the man-animal relationship through the history of Bristol Zoo...

The zoo is in the process of building a brand new extended restaurant, that will go by the name of The Hide. Get set for Bristol Zoo's £1.8m new restaurant

I will be attempting to visit both collections on Monday. Which should I visit first and how long should I allow for each visit? Highlights/things to look out for are, as always, much appreciated :)

In a world's first for the zoo; We've got some fantastic news from Twilight World,one of our aye-ayes has given birth to twins. Mum Sabrina has a lot of experience raising young but looking after twins is a first for her and indeed female aye-ayes the world over. Both mum and twins are doing...

Wild place! With no investors coming forward, Bristol zoo is opening up a new wildlife attraction on the Cribbs causeway site, south of Bristol. The plan now is to start with a smaller version of the scheme and then slowly build up the size of the attraction as visitor numbers and the profile...

Sounds (and looks) familiar: DinoZoo | Bristol Zoo "For three months, 12 huge and incredibly life-like animatronic dinosaurs will be placed around the Zoo. The new residents will include some of the world’s most popular dinosaur species, such as the tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops and the...

A new meerkat exhibit is to be built at Bristol Zoo, scheduled to open next spring. The new enclosure will form part of wider plans to refresh and renew the southern part of the Zoo. The plans include improvements to the children’s play area, a bridge with a hide and viewing platforms over...

Bristol Zoo is about to embark upon a research into the history of the collection and are looking for video footage, photographs, archive material, spoken memories and the like. Learn more by visiting: Zoo’s history to be researched with Bristol University