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Wildlife journeys Animal antics
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Exploring an urban zoo Our favourite animal news and

Production Editor Hannah Westlake recounts stories. Let us know yours at
animals@animalanswers.co.uk
her enchanting day at Copenhagen Zoo
Copenhagen’s zoological garden is one of Ad campaign
Mad about cats
the oldest zoos in Europe, nestled between
the picturesque Frederiksberg Gardens and We loved seeing all the ads at
Clapham Common tube station
Søndermarken Park. If the hustle and bustle of replaced with cat images
the city centre is getting overwhelming, the zoo as part of the CATS Citizen
is the perfect place to spend a day unwinding. Advertising takeover to make
It is overlooked by a wooden observation people see things differently.

tower, which offered breathtaking views of the
parks and enclosures.
There are over 3,000 animals and there’s
a very busy daily schedule, from training the
llamas in the Children’s Zoo to feeding the
elephants in the Elephant House. However,
it wasn’t until the end of my day that I came
across the giraffes. It was feeding time and
they were enticed over by buckets of greens.
The design of the enclosure meant we stood Tell us
almost head-height to a juvenile giraffe as it about one of your
gracefully lowered its neck to take food from a wildlife holidays by Nature documentary
keeper - the perfect pose for a photo! emailing your story and DiCaprio talks nature
photos to animals@ Check out the trailer for Before
animalanswers The Flood, National Geographic’s
Reader photos .co.uk latest documentary where actor
Leonardo DiCaprio talks about
stomping out climate change
before it is too late for our
Little green bee-eater planet’s precious wildlife.
Billy Evans
I saw this bird in Uduwalawe National Park.
I was going around in a 4x4 safari vehicle

when I saw a common kingfisher and a
little green bee-eater sitting on the same
log together. I am 13 years old and love
photography and animals.

Heron at the park
Roxanne Levy Animail
UNPA stamps
The United Nations Postal
Administration (UNPA) created
12 stamps featuring 12
endangered plant and animal
species found in Africa in
honour of one of the world’s
most important wildlife
conferences. CITES CoP17, or
the World Wildlife Conference,
was held in Johannesburg,
South Africa, from 24
Red-legged seriema September to 5 October.
Sophie Mayes
The red-legged seriema is a terrestrial bird
that inhabits grasslands in Brazil, Uruguay and
Argentina. This one however was in an enclosure at
Banham Zoo in Norfolk. These brown feathers are
perfect for allowing the beautiful light blue colour © Thinkstock; Thore Siebrand; Dave Scelfo
that surrounds its eyes to stand out.
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