Category: Animal news
We’re celebrating the pitter-patter of tiny, spotty and stripy feet as a rare Malayan tapir has been born at the zoo!
Nearly 30 years after the golden skiffia disappeared from Mexico’s waters, our conservationists have helped to return the rare fish to the wild.
Our reptile experts have become the first in the UK to successfully breed the extremely rare Parson’s chameleon.
Cameras at the zoo have captured the moment a rare giraffe arrives into the world!
Our conservationists have welcomed a special new arrival – a critically endangered Sumatran tiger, named Dash!
Nine adorable penguin chicks have hatched at the zoo and keepers have named them after their favourite fruits!
Our conservationists have begun freezing tissue samples of the world’s rarest animals.
We’re celebrating the birth of our first ever set of red-bellied lemur twins!
The cotton-top tamarin is one of the world’s most endangered primates with only 2,000 left in the wild.
Chester is currently one of just four zoos in the UK caring for the species and just 56 live in zoos across the whole of Europe.