London Zoo stock take 2024

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On January 3, London Zoo carried out its annual stocktake.   ZSL's conservation zoo is home to more than 300 different species, from Endangered Galapagos giant tortoises and Asiatic lions to Critically Endangered Sumatran tigers - all of which are logged and recorded as part of the Zoo’s annual licence requirement.   During the count, Crispin and Zac, the Zoo’s two Sumatran tiger cubs, turned the ‘register’ in their enclosure into a toy, dragging it away to gnaw on, while the colony of 74 Humboldt penguins patiently lined up to be counted by zookeeper Jessica Fryer.  Chapman’s zebras Kabibi, Kianga and Spot were added to the tally by zookeeper Becca Keefe, and Kim Carter ticked off Galapagos Giant tortoises Priscilla, Polly and Dolly. Sam Aberdeen made sure the zoo’s population of endangered Seychelles giant millipedes were all accounted for.

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00:00 Today is the annual stock take here at London Zoo. Now much as we obviously know how many

00:05 animals we've got at the zoo, we count them every day, this is a formal process that we do once a

00:10 year. It's actually going to take us a good few days because across about 300 species we will

00:16 have counted somewhere in the region of 14,000 animals by the time the process is over and all

00:22 that data goes onto a database that's then shared with other zoos across the whole world and

00:28 critically it then plays into the breeding programs that we manage here at the zoo and amongst so

00:33 many other zoos to make sure that we've got those sustainable long-term populations of critically

00:38 endangered animals in the zoo.

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