The largest zoo habitat in the UK: Heart of Africa opens at Chester Zoo
The problem with rhinos is that they don’t always appreciate that there’s a major media launch...
Read MorePosted by Fran Yeoman | Apr 5, 2025 | Enterprise
The problem with rhinos is that they don’t always appreciate that there’s a major media launch...
Read MorePosted by Fran Yeoman | Dec 9, 2024 | Archives
If Christmas really is all about the children, then there can’t be any quibbles about this year’s iteration of The Lanterns at Chester Zoo. Our two young daughters, aged four and six, declared on the way home that they “really,...
Read MorePosted by Fran Yeoman | Nov 14, 2024 | Archives
There are many things to be spied at Chester Zoo. Some are majestic – a lioness roaring, or a male orangutan lumbering around his enclosure – and others are merely predictable. Into the latter camp goes the sight of...
Read MorePosted by Fran Yeoman | Nov 14, 2024 | Archives
It should be an odd proposition. Go all the way to what is probably the nation’s best zoo, but don’t see any real animals. Instead, visitors to The Lanterns wander the paths and bridges of Chester Zoo in the dark, cooing not at...
Read MorePosted by Helen Nugent | Nov 9, 2024 | Archives
Much like a visit to the Museum of Science and Industry or a trip to the Palace Theatre panto, a school outing to Chester Zoo was a rite of passage for North West children born in the 1970s. I vividly remember a Junior School...
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