RSA students have been helping to enrich the lives of animals at DZG and boosting their own education in the process. As a result of a unique ongoing partnership between the zoo and nearby independent school, RSA Academy in Tipton, teenagers are learning about animal welfare and husbandry through a project organised by DZG’s Education … Continue reading Innovative programme boosts enrichment
Staff at DZG are assisting with a scientific study into the behaviour of a vulnerable species of primate. DZG has established a bachelor group of white-faced saki monkeys (Pithecia pithecia) and invited Plymouth University researcher Sarah Bonsall to compare the social behaviour of the all-males with breeding groups of monogamous pairs and families. Registrar and … Continue reading Vulnerable species studies
DZG’s late Asiatic lion, Max, was featured on Channel 4’s Inside Nature’s Giants. The four-part science documentary, which offered a fascinating insight into some of the world’s rarest species, saw a double big cat post mortem carried out on Max, alongside a tiger, at the Royal Veterinary College (RVC), University of London. DZG CEO Peter … Continue reading DZG lion featured on Inside Nature’s Giants
An octogenarian who visited DZG on its opening day in 1937 has achieved another first’ by adopting a newly-arrived bearded dragon. Animal crazy Muriel Thatcher, aged 84, from Wednesfield, Wolverhampton, has adopted many of the site’s collection during the last 74 years but is the first adopter to take on Edmund, the colourful lizard. CAPTION: … Continue reading Muriel adopts lizard – seven decades after first visit
Staff are celebrating after winning a top tourist attraction award for the seventh consecutive year. The VAQAS – Visitor Attraction Quality Assurance Scheme – award is issued by VisitBritain and follows tough inspection of the Zoo site and its facilities. CAPTION: Keeper Kirsty Thornton with the certificate.
A world-renowned expert on tapirs travelled almost 5,000 miles to meet the family at DZG. Sheryl Todd, president and founder of the Tapir Preservation Fund based in Oregon in the USA, visited the leading Black Country tourist attraction with her partner Lee Spangler. Sheryl, who has a life-long interest in the animals and has raised … Continue reading USA expert meets tapirs
DZG’s 2011 calendar shows our commitment to the very Best of British. Throughout the months we explain why it’s important to buy British foods for our animals. Not simply British, but as locally grown to DZG as we can possibly get. It’s not a new story, we’ve been doing it since 1937 when the zoo … Continue reading Best of British Calendar
A new live children’s BBC television series has been launched at DZG. Live N Deadly, a Saturday morning live wildlife and adventure roadshow for children saw intrepid presenter Steve Backshall make a grand entrance abseiling down the 11th century Dudley Castle into the courtyard to face a series of DZG animal encounters. He got up close … Continue reading It’s Live N Deadly from Dudley Zoo!
Staff from DZG kept a royal date when they attended a VIP reception at Westminster Cathedral. Chief Executive Peter Suddock, Head of Media and Communications Jill Hitchman and Senior Presenter David Riley were presented to HRH The Duchess of Cornwall at the British Food Fortnight event. They also compared foodie notes with BBC TV cooks, … Continue reading Zoo’s royal date highlights best of British
A BBC camera crew moved on site to record footage from our latest book which chronicles the history of a unique collection of Modernist buildings at DZG. Towers and Tectons: A View from the Hill, by Jill Hitchman, which also highlights conservation and research work at DZG, features the site’s iconic Tecton buildings which have … Continue reading The Beeb and the Book
