A rare and critically endangered animal has been born at Chester Zoo. The mountain bongo is Africa's rarest large mammal and up until now only one had been born at the zoo in over a decade.

E very now and then, we all need a little dose of something magical, and even better when that happens to be a world first.

Endangered species may "die out" because Chester Zoo cannot access government ... eligibility criteria for the government's £100m Zoo Animals Fund had stopped the zoo applying, putting breeding ...

Plan for a minimum of 6 hours in the zoo and even then you might not see everything. Chester Zoo is perfect for families. It’s not just the thousands of animals - someone has really thought about how ...

Keeper at Chester Zoo, said: "Very few people, if any, will have ever seen an anoa give birth. Anoa are incredibly shy and elusive animals and so to be able to witness a calf being born and then ...

Chester Zoo said hidden CCTV cameras had recorded the ... "Anoa are incredibly shy and elusive animals," said keeper Callum Garner. "So to be able to witness a calf being born and then see those ...

A trail of giant animals made using pumpkins and the UK’s first fully animated 360-degree mythical experience are among the highlights at a huge new Halloween festival at Chester Zoo. As part of its ...

Cute features in babies and animals ... Opportunities for up close and personal animal interaction now go far beyond the traditional petting zoo: be it high-priced private encounters at zoos ...

Chester Zoo is offering people 20% off entry into the ... we’re raising money for this vital work to protect this incredible animal. "Eastern black rhino and greater one horned rhino, the ...

It can even be used as a kind of pregnancy test, helping zoos to develop their conservation breeding programmes and boost the numbers of endangered animals. Chester Zoo is the only zoo in Europe ...

The new area is Chester Zoo's biggest ever habitat creation, as ITV Granada Report correspondent Paul Crone found out. A new woodland filled with 19,000 trees is helping in the fight against ...

Chester Zoo has grown rapidly since its foundation in 1930 so that today it is spread across more than 125 acres, and is home to more than 15,000 animals and 500 different species. It attracts more ...