Here you can see our hugely popular two-toed sloths, our West African dwarf crocodiles, bats, snakes, frogs, fish and birds.
In our tropical house you’ll learn about animals threatened by the illegal pet trade and important issues such as deforestation and habitat destruction. Our most popular rainforest inhabitants include our Linne’s two-toed sloths, Button and Nova, who live in Sloth Forest with free-flying birds.
We’re incredibly lucky to have four sloths at our zoo! Our pair of breeding sloths, Button and Nova, have joined us as part an EAZA European breeding programme and we hope to have a ‘Sloth Nursery’ in the near future. Our elderly pair of sloths, Tuppee and Lightcap, can be found in their specially adapted retirement home near the fruit bats, away from the more active youngsters, where they live happily, undisturbed in their old age. Our sloth adoptions are our most popular gift package and our sloth feeding experience is sold out up to a year in advance! You sure do love sloths.
Meet and hand feed one of our sloths on our hugely popular sloth feeding experience.
Love sloths? Or know someone who does? Get them a unique sloth adoption gift pack.
Meet Ray and Raquel, our breeding pair of critically endangered cotton-top tamarins!
The lively pair joined us as part a European breeding programme as there’s fewer than 2,000 adults remaining in the wild.
Read about when they joined us in Tropical Trails and watch a keeper video about their arrival.
We’re proud to shine a light on the illegal pet trade through several of our exhibits and in Tropical Trails you’ll see Bobo and Zemora our West African Dwarf Crocodiles. As a baby, Zemora was illegally smuggled into the UK in a suitcase! She was seized by airport customs and through relationships with customs rehoming units, zoos are often able to rehome these animals to stop money being exchanged and break the cycle.
We’ve got two types of fruit bats in Tropical Trails – Rodrigues and Egyptian fruit bats – you’ll often see them huddling together and hanging from fruit as they feed. Tropical Trails is also home to reptiles, frogs and a wide variety of exotic fish including our popular pirahnas!
