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Breeding success: London zoo counts its animals one-by-one

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Breeding success: London zoo counts its animals one-by-oneLondon (AFP) Jan 3, 2025

With bunches of lettuce and bucketloads of nuts, London Zoo kicked off its annual animal count Friday, coaxing everything from goats to gorillas out of their enclosures for the celebrated stocktake. The zoo, which is nearly two centuries old, performs the nearly week-long formal tallying early each January, with several new additions already proving to be the highlights. "We've had some
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