I've just checked, and it seems that I've not published one of my own articles on here since October. In my defence, I was pretty busy researching visitor effects on African wild dogs at West Midlands Safari Park. The dissertation is now in, the whole summer is ahead of me, and I'm back with a

Having just returned from my first full conference, I thought now was the perfect time to share what I've learned about how to approach them. As an undergrad, I always found them slightly mystifying; ...

Above: Eleanor at Twycross Zoo in 2014. The highlight of the visit was seeing the Linnaeus's two-toed sloth, which left the zoo shortly afterwards. Its enclosure was located in a part of the zoo which...

The UK is, for the most part, lacking for good city zoos. London rather famously has the ZSL London Zoo, the oldest scientific zoo in the world, and there are excellent zoos in Edinburgh and Belfast a...