Edinburgh Zoo

Brilliant Birds, Reptiles and Amphibians

Our newest exhibit is getting a brilliant bonus this month with the addition of reptiles, invertebrates and amphibians. The collection will include yellow footed tortoise, blue poison arrow frog, phantasmal poison frogs, stick insects, leaf cutter ants and sun beetles.

Brilliant birds is a walkthrough aviary showcasing rare and exotic species from around the world, including the Bali Starling, Violet Turaco and Nicobar pigeon. So visitors can learn more about the various birds there will be a daily talk at 3.30pm. Find out more here.

New Borns

September gives our visitors an opportunity to see some many young animals and new arrivals at the Zoo. We have just had a new L'hoest Monkey born (pictured) along with three Cochin-Chinese Red Jungle Fowl chicks. This years penguins chicks are leaving their creche to join the adults and we have baby Rock Hyrax darting around their rocky caves.

Upcoming Events

There are lots of great events coming up this month including badger watching, BBC After Life Live and a Gardens Talk.

View all our events here.

BBC Afterlife Live

LBBC Scotland are offering you the chance to have a seriously "rotten" time with top bug man Dr George McGavin through a special webcast and series of talks from its After Life project.

Find out more about After Life Live

Living Links Lecture Series

The Living Links Centre at Edinburgh Zoo is running a Lecture series on the 'Living Links to Human Health, Mind and Medicine'. This series of five talks focuses on the idea that this evolutionary perspective has increasingly illuminated the subjects of health and medicine, ranging from studies of self-medication in our non-human primate relatives in the wild, to the new science of Evolutionary or ‘Darwinian’ Medicine.

New Facilites - Eateries, Entrance and Gift Shop!

If you've not been to visit us recently then you'll have missed the fantastic upgrades to many of our facilities here at Edinburgh Zoo. We have redeveloped our two main eateries - Grasslands and Jungle Food Court. We have a beautiful new front entrance to welcome you, and a new gift shop, selling everything from Zoo-veneirs to fair trade products.

Not to mention...

...all of our other attractions such as the Budongo Trail, Penguin Parade, and Living Links, and the rest of our animal collection. This includes rhinos, koalas, sea lions, parrots, hunting dogs, tigers, lions, black stork, tapir, bongos, jaguar, pygmy hippos, sun bears....