Category: ZSL London
The star of Beauval Celebrates her Birthday With the Crowd
This beautiful story is brought to you by the amazing Casino Enligne Paris that is one of the most incredible platforms in France, we recommend reading more about them here. Now let’s see what is going on in the ZSL Zoo as of late. Yuan Meng was wanted. The baby panda of 30 kg was in no hurry to go to taste the birthday cake that London zoo blog bought it for him. Concocted by the team of healers, the iced treat, made on three levels and made from apples, carrots, various fruity syrups, and fresh bamboo, seemed tantalizing…
In search of the Mangarahara cichlid
Day 1 Check into our evening flight at Heathrow airport. Out of the two pieces of 23kg checked luggage we are each allowed Brian and I have less than 200 grams to spare between the both of us. Hope we don’t have to carry our bags around too much! We meet Tim from Toronto Zoo in the departure lounge and after a brief introduction hop on the flight to Nairobi. Day 2 2 rubbish films later and not very much…
A fungal ‘superbug’ causes global amphibian declines
Find out how ZSL scientists discovered the link between the frog trade and a killer fungus seriously effecting amphibians worldwide with Frog Blog My name is Rhys and I am a postgraduate student at Imperial College London and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL). For the past two years I have been studying a chytrid fungus known as Bd, which is responsible for likely hundreds of extinctions and local extinctions (extirpations) in amphibians worldwide. Our group is interested in understanding how -until recently-…
