Once humanity learnt how to turn brown sticky goo into plastic, this cheap, sterile, convenient and revolutionary new invention changed our lives. This wonder of technology though, got a little out of hand. It’s needless to say that plastic has…
Paignton Zoo is home to the UK’s only pair of oriental white storks (Ciconia boyciana), which are now on-show in the large aviary opposite the entrance to the spider monkey and red panda exhibits. This species is today only endemic to…
To celebrate and raise awareness of World Gorilla Day on Thursday 24th September, we have put together a short blog so that you can learn more about our incredible Western lowland gorillas here at the zoo. Part of the great…
After arriving on Friday 4th September, Paignton Zoo is now home to a new species – swamp wallabies. The only living species of the Wallabia genus and closely resembling kangaroos, this small marsupial has dark brown fur, with lighter rusty markings on…
The Bird team at Paignton Zoo have successfully managed to breed a very special species. Paignton Zoo is now home to not just one, but two, Socorro dove fledglings. This is a particularly important progression, as the Socorro dove (Zenaida…
It’s been 4 weeks since we closed our zoos due to COVID-19. Executive Director, Simon Tonge tells us what it’s like to run a zoo with no visitors. It’s interesting how rapidly it has become a cliché to say that…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world… The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world. Zoo people want to change the world, but we now find it changed for us – and not in the way we hoped. All the big…
Take a look inside Wild Planet Trust’s library… Thursday 5th March is World Book Day 2020. To mark the occasion, we thought we’d take a look at an amazing but largely-overlooked resource – Wild Planet Trust’s library. The library is…
Get to know our Paignton Zoo team… We caught up with Owen, the Head Keeper of Mammals, to find out a little more about him, what he does here at Paignton Zoo and why he is so passionate about wildlife…
