Weighing 3,500 animals in a day at Whipsnade Zoo

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Weighing 3,500 zoo animals in a day Every resident at Whipsnade Zoo needs to be coaxed on to the scales for the annual weigh-in.

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How do zoo elephants move home? Zookeepers have moved the animals 140 miles to help launch a new breeding programme.

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How to train your sea lion The sea lions at Banham Zoo are encouraged to mimic the behaviour of their wild counterparts.

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German floods that led to zoo escape A Twitter user captures the floods in western Germany that led to the escape of five big cats at a zoo.

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Baby elephant birth surprise A baby elephant surprised zoo keepers after being born to a mum whose pregnancy they thought had failed.

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Zoo orangutan smokes a thrown cigarette The video of the animal smoking a cigarette thrown by a zoo visitor has caused uproar in Indonesia.

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