We’ll be spreading the love this half term, as part of our annual Love Your Zoo Week celebrations. The theme of this year’s campaign, which is organised by the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA), is Pride and love and throughout half term (May 28 – June 5) there’ll be love-themed activities … Continue reading Love DZC!
Enjoy a fun, fact finding trip to Dudley Zoo and Castle this half term as we launch a packed programme of new animal talks and encounters. Join our Presenters between 11am and 3.30pm each day across the 40-acre site as they introduce you to many of endangered species, including for the duration of the … Continue reading Fact finding half term
Half term at Dudley Zoological Gardens is set to be frighteningly good fun for all the family! Running from Saturday October 26 – Sunday November 3, visitors will be able to follow a pumpkin trail around the 40-acre site, for the chance to win an adoption for one of the zoo’s Egyptian fruit bats. There’ll … Continue reading Frighteningly good family fun!
DZG is celebrating its best February half term visitor numbers on record – with a staggering 15,600 people flocking to visit. Lemurs in line… Our ring-tailed lemurs enjoyed the attention from the half term crowds Zoo bosses were delighted with the bumper attendance which they attributed to the pleasant dry weather, our recently developed enclosures … Continue reading Half term high!
Learn more about our family of lar gibbons during half term Q&A sessions. Our education staff will be introducing visitors to our family of four lesser apes – dad, Huggy, mum, Meo and their offspring Penny and Indah, during the daily 12pm talk at their enclosure, next to the sealion moat pools. Discover how the … Continue reading Learn about our lar gibbons
Visit DZG for some frighteningly family friendly fun this half term and get discounted entry in return for a carved pumpkin for our Halloween pumpkin patch! As part of our Freak Week we’re offering an adoption of Narna, our three-year-old flightless Egyptian fruit bat, for the best design. Running from Saturday, October 21 – 29, … Continue reading Half term Halloween fun!
It’s Love Your Zoo Week and we’re encouraging visitors to love DZG as much as we do! Throughout half term we’ll be running lots of love-themed activities to help spread the message about our conservation, education and research work with some of the rarest animals in the world, which we’ve proudly been carrying out for 80 … Continue reading Love DZG!
Discover all about some of the nosiest primates on site with our new half term talks. Our Presenters will be introducing visitors to our howler monkey family and lar gibbon gang for the two additional daily talks running throughout the school holidays. Learn how howler monkeys are so called because of their amazing howling call, … Continue reading Spotlight on noisy primates!
We’ve had some timely births in the bat enclosure just in time for Hallowe’en! This Egyptian fruit bat is just a few days old and is one of four newborns who can be spotted tucked up on their mums in the Castle Creatures exhibit throughout half term, which features approximately 80 Egyptian fruit and Seba’s … Continue reading Going batty for Hallowe’en
We’re gearing up for a fang-tastic half term at DZG, which promises to be frighteningly good fun for all the family! Join us for Freak Week and get discounted group admission for up to four people by bringing a carved pumpkin for our Hallowe’en pumpkin patch, with an animal adoption of your choice up for … Continue reading Join our Freak Week!
