Expect to see David Cameron sporting one before the current general election campaign is over. Once the trouser accessory of choice of the average flat-capped northerner, ferrets have become a fashionable pet for Londoners and upmarket southern types, according to the UK’s first national ferret census. Read More »
British police have seized a stuffed adult tiger once used in a fashion shoot by the late designer Alexander McQueen in a raid on a central London studio. Read More »
London’s Barbican Centre has played host over the years to some of the world’s greatest musicians. Now an orchestra of 40 zebra finches playing electric guitars and cymbals has become the latest musical sensation to take the venue by storm. Read More »
Eels, once a slippery mainstay of Cockney cuisine, appear to be abandoning the River Thames. Scientists from the Zoological Society of London have recorded a 98 percent drop in the number of European eels in the river in the past five years and say that triggers alarm bells for the future health of other Thames-dwelling species too. Read More »
Zoogle News reports from London, England, on the crisis facing the UK’s bee population.
A one-week-old cocker spaniel dubbed the “flush puppy” survived for four hours in a sewage waste pipe after being accidentally flushed down a toilet by a four-year-old boy. Read More »
“Dancing gorilla with GSOH WLTM female gorilla for LTR.” One year ago, Daimsi and Buu were just lonely singletons. But this week the amorous apes were celebrating the birth of their first baby – after finding love on the internet. Read More »
An unusual “walking fish” found washed up in the Thames estuary thousands of miles from home has left wildlife experts baffled and sparked fears of an invasion of British waterways. Read More »
