Tickets to the London Zoo can be purchased both online as well as at the attraction’s gate. While buying online tickets, you can book them in advance or buy same-day tickets. The online advance booking ticket price for adults is £24.30 and for children aged 3 to 15, it is £18.

Emotional zookeepers close gates around the world-famous ZSL London Zoo this afternoon, as the iconic Zoo closes for the second time this year – ahead of the country entering its second nationwide lockdown.

Camden Town

Camden Town (16 mins / 0.8 miles walk from the Zoo) Camden Town to ZSL London Zoo walking route (opens in Google maps).

By car. ZSL London Zoo’s car park is outside the congestion charging zone on Outer Circle, Regent’s Park. Cars and motorbikes are charged at £14.50 for visitors to the Zoo. For more details please see full parking information.

Yes, you are allowed your own food and drinks. There is no problem taking your own food & drink into the zoo although there are plenty of places to purchase food in the zoo. There are picnic tables & plenty of seats where you can sit & eat your own food.

There are many people who believe that zoos are unethical. They argue that it is cruel to remove animals from their natural habitat and keep them in cages for the public to look at. Due to threats such as poaching, there are arguably many species which would be extinct if they weren’t kept in zoos.

As long as the animals are given good living standards in safe, controled enviroments similar to their natural habitats with enough privacy from human eyes a zoo can even be considered a positively ethical place. Most of the Animals in Zoos were raised in captivity and would not do well adjusting to living in the wild.

Ethical zoos also provide resources to protect threatened and endangered species such as anti-poaching rangers. Some zoos (like the Oklahoma City Zoo) even award grants to individuals or organizations to conduct research and conservation on species in the wild.

They list the following weaknesses:

• a zoo may be unable to keep a large enough number of individuals to provide a sufficiently varied gene pool for the species to breed without problems.
• where animals are rare and hard to breed in captivity, removing specimens from the wild to zoos may result in the population falling.

In some cases, private ownership even increases the risk of a species’ extinction. Charismatic species like tigers are ruthlessly exploited for profit by unscrupulous people with damaging consequences. When young and still pliable, these animals are taken from their mothers and used in paid photo opportunities.

No, fish do not get “sad” if another fish dies. Fish do have a brain that is capable of some type of “emotion” but not to the extent that humans feel. They don’t feel anything like sadness, but may feel something to a smaller extent. Scientists have been able to train fish.

In most cases though, yes, fish are able to recognize their owners and in some cases form an attachment. Many scientists that worked on the archerfish study report the fish appearing anxious and skittish if a stranger walked into the room, compared to a loving spit of water at a familiar scientist’s face.

If the aquarium is too small, or bare of plants, rocks, substrate etc. and it has no outlet for natural behaviours, then yes – they will get bored. We often get fish from people who keep them in tanks that are dull and too small.

Mantas with PhDs! Mantas have one of the largest brains of all fish! They have a giant rete, web of capillaries and blood vessels, that encases their huge brain and keeps it warm even when diving to incredible depths.

A correctly set up, properly stocked and well maintained aquarium doesn’t need to be “cruel”. The animals can live quite a good life with easy access to food and no predator pressure. Even territorial conflicts are usually avoided, because you don’t want your animals to die, do you?

Just like humans, fish can also communicate with one another. The most common ways they achieve this are through sound, color, bioluminescence, motion, electrical impulses and smell. When you think about it, it is extremely easy for humans to communicate with one another!

Unlike a dog, fish probably won’t respond to their names. They can also be a wordplay on the appearance of the fish, their colors, patterns, eyes, tail, and more. You can also search the scientific name for your fish and use that to inspire you in choosing its name.

But can your fish hear you? The answer is… Yes, fish can hear your voice and will often associate it with a particular action. If you talk to them just before you feed them, for example, they’ll often swim to the top of the tank as soon as they see you or hear you speak.

But is it true or is it a myth? Yes and no, according to fishing pro Tom Redington. Since sound doesn’t travel well between air and water, loud talking or screaming will be barely noticeable to the fish underwater. They won’t get spooked or scared.

However, yes, they can hear your voice. They just know someone is speaking. They can associate sounds with action, though. For example, if you are to say your betta fish’s name – let us call him George – each time you sprinkle food in his aquarium, he will eventually associate the sound of “George” with food.

Fish are scared of their own reflection and try to fight themselves when they look at a mirror, a new study has revealed. They become even more frightened when they see their reflection making the same moves as them and appearing to fight back, found researchers.

How do fish see us? Science tells us that fish have eyes similar to humans, but they also have protective film over their eyes so that they can see more clearly underwater. Their eyes have rod and cone cells on their retinas, so we know that they can see color as well as in shades of grey, light and dark.