Belfast Zoo manager Alyn Cairns said the main reason was due to the zoo's herd size. It only had two elephants and the minimum herd standard was four elephants. Due to Dhunja's old age ...

Belfast Zoo’s newest meerkats, Daffo and Dil, have been named in honour of Marie Curie’s iconic daffodil appeal.

Belfast Zoo has welcomed the arrival of four new meerkats. Visitors have this week been able to spot the animals after they were moved into a new habitat at the north Belfast visitor attraction on ...

After the bombing began in April 1941, the authorities feared that a direct hit on Belfast Zoo could allow dangerous animals to escape. So they ordered creatures including six wolves, a puma ...

Two baby meerkats at Belfast Zoo have been named ‘Daffo’ and ‘Dil’, to mark Marie Curie’s annual Great Daffodil Appeal in ...

Visitors to Belfast Zoo have some new arrivals to enjoy with four new meerkats having moved into their habitat on Monday. The zoo said two meerkats arrived at the facility in January and have ...

Male chimpanzees Tombe and Tumba will be moving to Belfast Zoo tomorrow to make way for a new male later in the year. Tombe is Colchester Zoo’s dominant male chimpanzee and, since his birth in ...

The Chimpanzee Lookout enclosure will be shut to visitors today while male chimps, Tombe and Tumba, are transferred from Colchester to Belfast Zoo.