The Southern Cassowary chick hatched at Birdland in Bourton at the end of last year and it is was the only one to hatch in the UK in 2024. The birds, native to Australia, Indonesia ...

Messingham Zoo marks Valentine's Day by feeding cockroaches named after former partners to meerkats. An increase in costs and paperwork after leaving the EU has led to fewer animal transfers, it says.

Another previous mix up at Birdland involved a king penguin called ... a young female will be acquired from a zoo in Germany and the park hopes that it will arrive by January 2025.