Tag: Zoo

Chinese government airmailed “high quality panda semen” to Edinburgh Zoo in bid to produce 2018 cub

In Brief

Kirsty Stewart - April 20, 2018

EDINBURGH Zoo chiefs received an airmail delivery of panda semen from China in a desperate bid to produce a cub. Tian Tian has failed to...

FIRST footage of UK’s new polar bear cub swimming

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Deadline News Journalist - April 2, 2018

ADORABLE footage shows the UK’s only polar bear cub swimming with its mother for the first time. The keepers said it was a ‘heart pounding...

“Run free Peggy” – Zoo heartbroken as brown bear rescued from travelling circus put to sleep

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Kirsty Stewart - September 27, 2017

HUNDREDS of animals lovers have paid tribute to a brown bear which has been put down five years after being rescued from a travelling...

Edinburgh Zoo keeper under investigation over social media post saying that police are “dirty pigs”

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Kirsty Stewart - September 1, 2017

A KEEPER at Edinburgh Zoo is being urgently investigated over social media posts which called police "dirty pigs" and discussed the sexual attraction of...

Blair Drummond reveals its only male tiger, Genghis, has been put to sleep

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Kirsty Stewart - June 30, 2017

SCOTLAND'S biggest safari park has revealed that it put down its only male tiger following a "sudden deterioration" in the animal's health. Genghis, a 19-year-old...