It is with sadness that Twycross Zoo announces that Miss Nathalie Evans, co-founder of the Zoo with Miss Molly Badham, passed away peacefully in her sleep on Friday 9 September 2016 aged 98 years.
To mark Grandparents Day on Sunday 11th September 2016, we are delighted to be able to offer FREE ADMISSION to each Grandchild accompanied by a Grandparent.
To celebrate National Camping and Caravanning week, the Camping and Caravanning Club are touring up and down the UK with a pop-up campsite roadshow, and are starting that tour with us at Twycross Zoo on 30th May 2016.
Channel 5 Documentary: The Secrets Of The Tea Chimps To Air Next Week!
On Tuesday 13 January at 8pm, Channel 5 will air a one-off documentary all about the chimpanzees at Twycross Zoo who were part of the famous Brooke Bond television adverts promoting PG Tips tea bags that ran for nearly twenty years from the 1960s to 1980s.
Twycross Zoo Veterinarians Probe Ape Heart Disease
As part of an international research project into ape heart disease, vets here at Twycross Zoo are the first to have recorded an electrocardiogram (ECG) trace in a chimpanzee without the need for general anaesthesia.
Twycross Zoo is pleased to announce the birth of an endangered bonobo! In the early hours of Wednesday 20th February 2013, 23 year old Banya gave birth to healthy baby boy after an eight and a half month pregnancy.