LONDON --How do you count scorpions? Very gingerly, it turns out. "You use tongs and pick them up by the stinger," London Zoo senior keeper Tony Dobbs said. "You avoid the pincers at all costs. You ...

Keepers at the London Zoo have kicked off their annual animal count. With more than 19,000 animals and some 600 different species to count, the challenging task will take zookeepers a week to complete ...

A zoo's annual animal count revealed there were 52 births in 2023, including six blue-faced honeyeater chicks and three banteng calves. The job of counting and recording every species is a requirement ...

Marwell Zoo has completed its annual stocktake, counting more than 500 animals across 145 species. The official count is a legal requirement of the zoo's licence and involves keepers logging every ...

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Keepers at the London Zoo are spending the next weeks counting every mammal, bird, reptile amphibian and invertebrate housed at the zoo. TODAY.com's Dara Brown reports.Jan. 4, 2012 ...

Staff at London Zoo readied their clipboards and calculators on Friday as they began to count more than 10,000 animals during the annual stocktake. The stocktake is a requirement of the zoo’s annual ...

LONDON — From alpacas to zebras - and lots of birds, reptiles and invertebrates in between - London Zoo on Friday is taking stock of what it possesses. The annual census of the zoo’s 10,000-plus ...