Christmas visitors to Chessington enjoyed a whole world of unexpected musical and aromatic adventures around the gorilla enclosure. The great apes couldn’t control their anal acoustics thanks to a diet steeped in Brussels sprouts. The zoo has now withdrawn the vegetable after visitors complained about …
Vauxhall’s Beaconsfield creative art laboratory is a good old fashioned artists’ collective with a track record for the memorably odd. Curating the Tate Britain for December’s Late At Tate, they sprinkled the galleries with the yeasty mix of stupid ideas and brilliant execution we’ve come …
A gang of gorillas was spotted on the Piccadilly Line this morning, jostling in the carriages along with the regular homosapien passengers who (in true Londoner fashion) attempted to ignore the ape army. A wandering lost tribe from September’s Great Gorilla Run? In truth, something …
Hmm. Londonist can’t help thinking that this gorilla was named for her rhyming potential. Anyway, London zoo’s new simian sexpot has shaken up the gorilla pound, and stirred the testosterone of Bobby, one of its favourite inmates. Staff at the zoo had previously feared for …
While pigeons are getting a bit of stick today, heartwarming news of sparrows getting new homes at London Zoo courtesy of prisoners in Spring Hill prison balances the scale somewhat. After a long absence, sparrows have come back to London and are being housed in …
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