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Isle of Wight news, Adala and Mitsio the Black Lemurs have produced a youngster,the sex is unknown.

Well with 2015 a few days away and the old news thread getting a bit long, I figured why not make a new one? Now I don't have any big news but I visited today so have a couple of little bits. First off, I'd just like to mention that it appears to me as though the Coquerel's Sifakas and...

Staff at Shaldon Wildlife Trust, a small zoo in Devon are delighted to announce the birth of triplet White-bellied pygmy marmosets. These rare marmosets, from South America, are the world’s smallest monkeys. Males weigh in at just over 100g, females are a little heavier at just over 122g and...

Two Amur leopard cubs born to Anuy and Pya on 11th of March. Both cubs are females.

The aquarium is currently caring for a stranded loggerhead turtle, found washed ashore at Freshwater West in Pembrokeshire. BBC News - Aquarium optimistic over washed ashore turtle's recovery (Is this place now known as the Bristol aquarium?)

1.1 Lynx lynx Wardi have arrived at the park from Wuppertal. Issabelle and Linus are the only captive lynx lynx wardi in the UK, and two of only five in the rest of Europe. They are brother and sister. BBC News - Lynx cats arrive at Lincolnshire wildlife park

From the website; The star resident of a new £1 million attraction at Brighton Sea Life Centre will take you breath away! Give her half a chance and she could literally squeeze the breath from your body. She is a green anaconda, set to take centre stage in the new Rainforest Adventure...

Article about the breeding of Northern Gannets : June 20, 2013 Great Gannets! Three Healthy Chicks Hatch at Zoo am Meer Bremerhaven Zoo am Meer Bremerhaven Germany Northern Gannet 2013-3 Three healthy Northern Gannet chicks hatched at Zoo am Meer Bremerhaven on the Northern coast of...

Time for a specific animal news thread for Fota. A male European Bison calf was born last Saturday to mother Donna and father Boris who sadly died on Wednesday. Boris a 16 year old who had originally come from Boras Djurpark Zoo in Sweden had been at the park since 1999 and was the dominant...

To start off the thread........ The short snouted sea horses (hippocampus hippocampus), will go on display on the 29th of March;)

Well, here's the new thread for the new year! The zoo has posted a video of the zoo's new Steller's sea eagles: New Steller's Sea Eagles - Cincinnati Zoo - YouTube

The zoo of Lodz is the host of most unusual, bizarre football game of these championships... http://lodz.gazeta.pl/lodz/51,35153,11921565.html?i=4 While matches are being played in Lodz, Krakow zoo is busy forecasting results with the help of Citta female elephant... S?onica Citta wytypowa?a...

The latest births and arrivals at the zoo include: 1.0 Striped skunk arrived 0.0.3 Chestnut-backed thrushes hatched 0.0.4 Green-winged doves hatched 0.0.2 Nicobar pigeon hatched And ALL the red river hogs have left the collection.

The Memphis Zoo - Home The Memphis Zoo, in the State of Tennessee, is a well-regarded zoo that is perhaps most famous for being one of only four zoos in the United States with giant pandas. The zoo was founded in 1906, is on 70 acres of land, and has over 3,500 animals in its collection...

Two Lesser Antillean iguanas have hatched at the zoo, the first in 11 years. BBC News - First iguanas born at Durrell in Jersey in 11 years

I figured that a new thread should be started for the new year. Not really news, but here's another video of the zoo's new elephant, Hank. Shoot, the prefix didn't save for some reason. If a moderator could please fix that! :)

Comedian Rhod Gilbert has done three days zoo-keeping experience at Welsh Mountain Zoo [17/01/2012 - 19/01/2012]. Rhod Gilbert Becomes a Zoo Keeper at the Welsh Mountain Zoo | | Welsh Mountain ZooWelsh Mountain Zoo Assuming this is for the work experience show he does, it will certainly be...

An African lungfish has been donated to the aquarium by a private donor, after the lungfish ate all of its tankmates. Lungfish arrives at Blue Planet Aquarium - Ellesmere Port Pioneer

A new thread to start off the new year! Three weeks ago an African Penguin chick hatched at the zoo. It will be hand raised to take part in the Wings of Wonder Bird Show, and it will debut in the show this spring. Video:

Again to start off the new year, the park's facebook page has hidden in its ticket prices for the year, mention of 6 wildebeest, newly arrived in one of the reserves, but from where and what species, is not mentioned.