The Chester Zoo team are currently collecting samples from giraffe, okapi, and lions. The cells, if successfully extracted, ...

Other zoos in the UK and Europe are sending in fecal samples from animals to inform breeding decisions or diagnose pregnancies, and Chester Zoo is also working with partners to replicate its ...

Experts fitted the endangered ploughshare tortoise with a unique set of rollers to help him retain his mobility before moving the animal to his new home at the Chester Zoo Shafiq Najib is a former ...

Chester Zoo is in the middle of a baby boom. Over the last few months, animals such as black rhinos, giant anteaters and Asian elephants - which are endangered in the wild - have been giving birth ...

Six orangutans, four gibbons and 18 macaque monkeys survived a huge blaze at Chester Zoo this ... However, devastated zoo workers were unable to save a number of animals including insects, frogs ...

Chester Zoo’s annual animal headcount has revealed it is now home to more animals than ever before. Figures released by the zoo have shown that 35,139 animals, from more than 500 of the world's ...

The zoo said the "leggy youngster" is enjoying racing around his new habitat Chester Zoo has celebrated the birth of what it said was one of the rarest animals on earth. The Cheshire attraction ...

"I actually feel they enjoyed it better than Chester Zoo as it was more manageable for their ages." Laura M said: "We went as a family and we were amazed at the variety of animals we could see.

Mike Jordan, director of animals and plants at Chester Zoo, said: "This is one of those days that you hope will never come and we're all heartbroken to say goodbye to Boris he really was one in a ...