Twycross Zoo is a medium to large zoo near Norton Juxta Twycross, Leicestershire.
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14 Facts About Twycross Zoo
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Twycross Zoo was established by Molly Badham and Nathalie Evans in 1963.
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Twycross Zoo first opened to the public on Sunday 26 May 1963; the opening ceremony was performed by Jean Morton, a local television personality, accompanied by her popular children's TV puppet show characters Tingha and Tucker.
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Twycross Zoo has become known for breeding primates and has recorded first UK births for thirteen different species including the bonobo, siamang, agile gibbon and woolly monkey, contributing to numerous conservation breeding programmes.
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Twycross Zoo has around 500 animals of almost 150 species, including many endangered species.
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Many of the animals at Twycross Zoo are part of conservation breeding programmes which help ensure a future for species threatened with extinction.
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Twycross Zoo is the only zoo in the UK that is home to all four types of great ape.
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Twycross Zoo has one of the largest range of gibbons in Europe and these small apes can be seen in the new Gibbon Forest.
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Twycross Zoo has its very own Nature Reserve which is free to enter.
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Twycross Zoo teaches over 15,000 school children per year in four purpose-built classrooms, each designed around a different theme: infant classroom, rainforest room, the illegal wildlife trade and the tertiary lecture room.
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In 2006 Twycross Zoo established the Conservation Welfare Fund to make a positive contribution to animal conservation and improve animal welfare worldwide.
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In February 2014 Twycross Zoo partnered with the United Nations Great Ape Survival Partnership to assist them in their goal to ensure the long-term survival of great apes and their habitat in Africa and Asia.
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Twycross Zoo is a member of BIAZA, EAZA and WAZA and members of staff chair, advise and are members of a number of specialist committees within the international zoo framework.
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Twycross Zoo is recognised as having a database of the animals in its care, both current and historically, that is comparable to any major zoological garden worldwide.
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