Twelve days in 1965 saw the general public gripped by the exploits of a fugitive bird, a golden eagle that had escaped from London Zoo in Regent's Park. The bird, in an inevitable shorthand ...

Endangered pygmy slow loris Ernest and black-capped squirrel monkey Nuka are now recovering, the zoo says Two tiny primates at London Zoo are recovering after receiving dental treatment.

If you thought London Zoo was just about animals ... was later discovered not to be ideal for the birds. Still, its elliptical Grade I-listed volume is visual shorthand for the progressive, modernist ...