Belfast Zoo - Great Days Out!

Belfast Zoo has ‘zooper’ news to share, with a baby boom of animals for visitors to enjoy over Easter! The zoo welcomed an adorable baby vicuña and is now home to five vicuña and other births include...

Good News - Belfast Zoo has returned the escaped red panda cub to its home in the zoo. The search operation involved Zoo staff and and the PSNI and the cub is now healthly and safe.

Belfast Zoo keeper has been hand-rearing the first ever Chilean flamingos to hatch at Zoo! Belfast Zoo has been home to flamingos since the zoo first opened in 1934 but first became home to Chilean flamingos in 2010.

Belfast Zoo will hold its first ever ‘sensory day’ to allow visitors on the autism spectrum to enjoy a ‘zooper’ day out in a stress-free environment and to explore the zoo in a calm and relaxed atmosphere.

Belfast Zoo announces the sad news that Tina the Asian elephant has sadly passed away, aged 54. The Belfast zoo team, vets and NI Fire Service worked tirelessly to save her but couldn't

Belfast Zoo becomes home to pair of yellow mongoose. The brother and sister from Bristol Zoo can now be seen by visitors in their new enclosure at Belfast Zoo

The keepers at Belfast Zoo keepers have been busy matchmaking a flock of 41 flamingos. The Chilean flamingos arrived at the zoo in 2010 but have never laid eggs despite attempts to encourage breeding.

Belfast Zoo has welcomed eleven Cape porcupines from a zoo in Spain which has closed. Cape porcupines are the largest rodents in Africa and are also the world’s largest porcupines.

Belfast Zoo celebrate arrival of three critically endangered white-belted ruffed lemurs. The parents are part of a global breeding programme which in 2009 saw the arrival of the dad, Wakka from Newquay Zoo, Cornwall and mum Mianta from Beasancon Zoo in France.

Botanic Gardens and Fleming Fulton School’s P5 class have welcomed Belfast Zoo’s newest resident a female red panda. Vixen arrived from Dresden Zoo.

Belfast Zoo celebrates birth of a critically endangered Western lowland gorilla, which was born to mother, Namoki, and father, Gugas, on 28 August 2016. Newborn gorillas cling to their mother’s stomach for the first few months and for this reason keepers have only recently been able to discover that the infant is a girl and she has now been named Olivia.

Belfast Zoo travelled back in time for a new movie based on one of Northern Ireland’s most famous war-time stories. Zoo is about a World War II Ministry of Public Security directive to destroy all dangerous animals

Belfast Zoo celebrates the arrival of first Andean bear cub to be born there in 22 years! The zoo team can ‘bear-ly’ contain their excitement with the arrival of the little bear cub.

Belfast Zoo is celebrating another cracking success as eight gentoo penguin chicks hatch. There are 17 species of penguin in the world and Belfast Zoo is home to gentoo and rockhopper penguins. Are you planning your visit to the Zoo?