Giant Pandas come to Edinburgh

On Sunday, Edinburgh welcomed two Giant Pandas to it’s city Zoo. The Giant Pandas will live in Edinburgh for 10 years on loan in a global conservation programme. The two adult Pandas,  a male and female named Yang Guang and Tian Tian, arrived to the Zoo via private jet with much ceremony including crowds of visitors, [...]

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5 Best Days Out For Children In Edinburgh.

Keeping children entertained for a few hours in the winter can be difficult. Lucky Edinburgh residents have a good array of facilities on their doorstep to keep choose from and with you in mind, we ran a little survey on our facebook page to find out what you, our readers, think is the best place [...]

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Scott Liddell Visits Edinburgh Zoo – Part 2 – Primates and Monkeys

As my first zoo post suggested, there was always going to be more, and here they are, a selection of photos from recent visits to the zoo. For this post we are concentrating on the great variety of primates in the zoo. A more charming bunch of individuals you’ll never meet. Click on the animal [...]

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Lemur Caption Competition

Regular readers may remember Scott Liddell’s photo of this ring tailed lemur from his guest post about visiting Edinburgh Zoo. We feel that the lemur would be saying something if he could, but being as we cannot speak lemurese we have no idea what he might be saying! If you think you know, please leave [...]

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Scott Liddell Visits Edinburgh Zoo – Part 1

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Edinburgh’s Zoo. Perched on the side of Corstorphine Hill, it has challenged the calf muscles of many generations of locals and visitors alike. It continues to evolve with the times and now features many new great habitats and enclosures, much changed from my first visits as a child. [...]

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