london zoo

London Zoo's Elephant and Rhino House. Currently empty inside with no external enclosures but I'm going to build them soon...

London Zoo's Elephant and Rhino House. Currently empty inside with no external enclosures but I'm going to build them soon...

Aerial view of the Reptile House.

Exterior of the Reptile House.

Exterior of the now closed Aquarium.

View just beyond the entrance of the zoo.

Entrance ticket booths.

Entrance of London Zoo I built in game.

I finally completed building the Cotton Terraces at ZSL London Zoo in the game complete with all the animals in their respective exhibits.

Just visited for the first time in absolute ages and having seen what has changed, I felt it might be suitable to post (another) thread on this. I had fresh eyes on the situation because I hadn't been there since 2013 (I know, appalling, is it not). Anyway, quick run-through of the exhibits...

I am going to visit London zoo tomorrow (fingers crossed) and I haven't been in a while. I was wondering where to find the following animals. Many of them I know where they are approximately, but not precisely... Aye-aye, Cape hyrax, Common water-rat, Goodfellow's tree kangaroo, Lesser hedgehog...

A blueprint I made in Planet Zoo of the Cotton Terraces at ZSL London Zoo.

A blueprint I made in Planet Zoo of the Cotton Terraces at ZSL London Zoo.

A blueprint I made in Planet Zoo of the Cotton Terraces at ZSL London Zoo.

A blueprint I made in Planet Zoo of the Cotton Terraces at ZSL London Zoo.

I was look at the web page below which claims the Tecton gorilla house was at one time converted to house elephants. I know there was some kind of subterranean elephant house in the middle gardens but thought it a separate structure to the Round House. I'm assuming the article has got it wrong...

I was doing some cataloguing of 19th Century watercolour sketches from Tibet and the Himalaya at work today, and there was one of a set of antlers of a deer described as Shaoo or Shawa. A bit of digging led me to learn about the Shou, the Tibetan Red Deer, Cervus canadensis wallichi.I haven't...

Rare early 1990's London Zoo home movie please see Youtube link:

The BBC have announced some new commissions of natural history documentaries, one if which will be of real interest to Zoochatters BBC - BBC announces a new line-up of Natural History commissions - Media Centre

Saw this rather sweet poster at St Pancras International this morning on my way to work.