London Zoo, aka Zoological Society of London

Two zoo visits in a month! In April I went to Chester Zoo. In May, I went to London Zoo, now known as the Zoological Society of London. I had a meeting with Sergio Henriques, chair of the Spider and Scorpion Specialist Group at IUCN. He is also Red List Authority Coordinator. He contacted me as he is interested in getting Malaysian Liphistius spiders onto the Red List. Liphistius kanthan is already on the Red List. See my blog about Liphistius.

After the meeting I was able to go around the zoo. I don't think I have been here since I was a child. From Baker Street tube station I walked through Regents Park to the zoo.

A carpet of daisies

In the zoo I spent a few hours walking round. Ring tailed lemur enjoying beetroot -

Okapi -

Meerkat on sentry duty, checking the sky for predators -

Asian small clawed otter -

Komodo dragon -

Turquoise dwarf gecko

Gidgee spiny-tailed skink -

King cobra -

Serval -

Humboldt penguin

Zoological Society of London website.