- It’s open every day of the year – except Christmas Day, so whichever time of the year you visit Edinburgh you’ll be able to pay a visit to Edinburgh Zoo.
- Open since 1913, and still going strong, Edinburgh Zoo gives you the opportunity to meet over 1,000 animals, and is the most exciting wildlife attraction in Scotland.
- Ranked as Scotland’s second most popular tourist attraction after Edinburgh Castle, Edinburgh Zoo’s visitor numbers have been boosted by the recent loan of...
- Which brings us to the main practical point about visiting Edinburgh Zoo. ... Penguins first arrived at Edinburgh Zoo in 1914, and started breeding in 1919.
- Both tigers at Edinburgh Zoo were born in captivity; one at the Fota Wildlife Park in Ireland, and the other at Bristol Zoo in England.
- Don't miss out on the Edinburgh Zoo gardens, a lush paradise with countless exotic flowers and plants.
- Visitors to Edinburgh Zoo can discover a wide range of species, from chimps to penguins. The Zoo is also home to the UK's only koalas and giant pandas.
- Edinburgh Zoo, formally the Scottish National Zoological Park, is an 82-acre non-profit zoological park in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland.
- New £4.5m world class visitor attraction to house up to fifty chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo, designed by Cooper Cromar Architects: Budongo Trail.
- It houses a pair of Linnaeus's two-toed sloths named Nico and Feira, making Edinburgh Zoo currently the only zoo in Scotland to have sloths.