Well, I did indeed visit London Zoo this week, and it was pretty good, though I didn't see everything.
- It was baltic! I was freezing the whole time I was out, which probably helped explain why I didn't see some of the animals.
- We went to the into Africa section first, with us unfortunately not seeing the hippos, duikers or okapis but seeing the zebras, giraffes and warthogs.
- No wild dogs. Are they all dead and are they getting new ones? They were certainly doing lots of work on the enclosure.
- Forgot how impressive the night life area was. We spent a long time trying to spot each animal, and we were lucky with spotting species like the aye-ayes, senegal bushbabies, grey slender loris, harvest mouse and gray mouse lemur. The rainforest life building was also really nice and the sloth was sleeping right above us. Saw most of the animals in there, but there was a group of primary school kids in the building with us at the same time, which may have prevented me from seeing the tamandua.
- Sad seeing the roundhouse empty- how long has it been uninhabited for and will anything ever go back in?
- Monkey valley is awesome- the aviary is just so huge and I love the fact there was signs on the bridge about its history. Unfortunately the walkthrough was closed but I still saw all the monkeys. Why don't they have birds in it anymore?
- Where actually is the dik dik enclosure, and, if it was closed off, where would I have been able to get to the enclosure?
- Sad I never got to see the reptile house open, looked like it was an amazing building.
- The new one was very impressive though, being of a reasonable size and holding some cool species, most I believe were from the previous building.
Overall- really nice. Just wish I had more time and the weather wasn't so bad- then I'll see that pesky mongoose!
- Shame Gorilla kingdom was being refurbished when I visited, though only half of it was closed. Unfortunately I only saw one adult and not any of the youngsters.
- Great to see the Casson- my favourite listed building they have! Sadly though, both of the different species living there were not seen and the indoors was closed.
- Saw lots of tigers and lions- both enclosures are very impressive.
- I know there is a statue of Winnie the bear in the zoo somewhere- where is it? I did not find it.
- Penguin enclosure is amazing- definately the most impressive humboldt penguin enclosure I've ever seen (still came second to a different enclosure in the best UK penguin enclosure poll though
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- Luckily I got to see the Darwin's frog breeding area- great to see what ZSL are doing.
- Tiny Giants building is awesome- how long has it been there for?
- As I said, I ran out of time though, meaning I didn't see the small Indian mongoose
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