Former U.K. Children’s Laureate Browne has always been interested in primates, as books like Gorilla and his Willy the Chimp series have made clear. Now, the static nature of a counting book ...

Keepers at the London Zoo have kicked off their annual animal count. With more than 19,000 animals and some 600 different species to count, the challenging task will take zookeepers a week to ...

Thursday was counting day at the London Zoo, so Dobbs not only had to count scorpions (13) but also the zoo's meerkats, millipedes and many other animals.

The zoo’s large population -- more than 14,500 animals, including thousands of insects -- means it will take keepers about a week to complete the census, which started today.