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Summer arrives with a SPLASH at Belfast Zoo! The summer holidays have arrived with a ‘splash’ and so has Belfast Zoo’s latest arrival! The zoo team has recently celebrated the birth of a California sea lion pup. The pup was born to mother, Arielle and father, Wesley, on 15 June 2015. Belfast Zoo has had […]
Spring has officially arrived at Belfast Zoo and keepers have been kept particularly busy caring for the latest additions to the zoo farmyard! Peppa pig welcomed six Tamworth piglets at the start of April. Hannah the African pygmy goat also welcomed two kids, named Coffee and Bananas, on 23 April and celebrations continued on 11 […]
The Belfast Trust Fostering Service is the newest corporate partner of Belfast Zoological Gardens, choosing to sponsor the Gentoo penguin enclosure as part of the corporate sponsorship scheme. Fostering provides children who cannot live with their own families with alternative care where they can benefit from a loving, safe and stable home. Some of these […]
Belfast Zoo is celebrating the arrival of two of the world’s largest rodents, in the form of twin capybara babies. Parents Charlie and Lola arrived in Belfast in 2009 and welcomed Gus and Jacques on 3 April 2012. Capybaras originate from South America. The scientific name for capybara (Hydrochoerus) means ‘water hog’ and although they […]
