Penguin Beach recreates a South American beach landscape in the heart of London, with stunning colony of Humboldt penguins (and one speical Rockhopper).
The new exhibit features a large pool with stunning underwater viewing areas so you can see how our flippered friends fly under water. The exhibit’s 1200 sq metre pool holds 450,000 litres of water!
Our large demonstration area turns feeding time in to an even bigger spectacle than before. Penguin Beach Live will feature twice daily feeds where visitors can watch the birds diving for their food.
Penguin Beach is a breeding facility for colonies of Humboldt penguins with a special penguin nursery, including a chick incubation unit and a pool where the youngsters can learn how to swim.
Penguin Facts
Humboldt penguins love cleaning (preening) themselves and their friends. When preening they gather oil from a gland in their tail and then apply this to their feathers – like penguin hair gel!
Humboldt penguins never chew with their mouth open because they don’t chew at all! Instead our penguins swallow their fish head first.
A Humboldt penguin can reach up to 30 miles per hour in the water!
Unlike other penguins, Rockhopper penguins prefer hopping to waddling. You can see Ricky bounding over rocks at Penguin Beach.
Catch a glipse of our amazing Penguin Beach exhibit.
Videos
MeerkatMan, MeerkatMan
Climbing up whatever a meerkat can
Climbs a tree, any size
Sits on it and watches time fly
Look out!
Here comes MeerkatMan
Meet one of our Goeldi monkeys!
These little monkeys were one of the last species of monkeys to be discovered, having only been found in 1904 by Emilio (surprise, surprise) Goeldi.
OMG! We've reached 20,000,000 views on our Youtube channel!
https://www.youtube.com/ZSLvideo
Practising your yoga, Ricky?
Happy World Pangolin Day!
Have you all been receiving a warm Cinta welcome on your visits to Tiger Territory? Visitor Maria Lundy certainly did!
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It may not be Friday yet, but this will put a smile on your face! Find out how little Alika, our baby western lowland gorilla, has been getting on and see some exclusive footage filmed by her keepers.
Here come the boys!
Opening on Saturday 28 March, In with the Lemurs is a brand new walk-through exhibit that will allow visits to get closer than ever to an adorable bachelor group of 16 lemurs.
Read more: http://www.zsl.org/coming-soon/in-with-the-lemurs
Are you bringing your little ones to the zoo this half-term? We have little ones of our own and they don't get much smaller than our baby seahorses!
Fill your February half term full of colour!
We have loads of exciting activities taking place in Butterfly Paradise, which has undergone a transformation not unlike that of its inhabitants!
(And it's always a balmy 27 degrees inside Butterfly Paradise...)
http://www.zsl.org/zsl-london-zoo/exhibits/butterfly-paradise