Initial Research

How many species of animals are there in London Zoo?

Animal inventory

ZSL London Zoo Male Female

Fishes 36 41

Invertebrates 32 84

Total: 555 636

Grand total Animals: 18430

What do Animals eat?

Panda?

bamboo

In the wild, 99 percent of a panda’s diet consists of leaves, stems and shoots of the bamboo plant, while the remainder is made up of flowers, vines, grasses, green corn, honey and small rodents. Pandas in captivity are fed bamboo, sugar cane, rice gruel, carrots, apples and sweet potatoes.

Flamingos?

algae

Flamingos at San Francisco Zoo. In the wild, flamingos eat algae, crustaceans, brine shrimp, diatoms, and aquatic plants. At the zoo, a special “flamingo fare” is served. To preserve their rosy color at the zoo, flamingos are fed a commercially prepared diet high in carotenoids.

Elephants?

Elephants consume several hundred pounds of vegetation daily. An Asian elephant at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay eating a palm frond. Sixteen to eighteen hours, or nearly 80% of an elephant’s day is spent feeding. Elephants consume grasses, small plants, bushes, fruit, twigs, tree bark, and roots.

Pengunis?

fish

Penguins eat seafood. Their main diet is fish, though they’ll also eat squid, small shrimplike animals called “krill” (see photo to the right) and crustaceans.

Giraffe?

leaves

In the wild, giraffes primarily eat the leaves and twigs of acacia, mimosa, and wild apricot trees (also various trees and shrubs in the genera Commiphora and Terminalia). Still, their diet does extend well beyond the more commonly eaten plants just mentioned. They even eat some fruit.

Rhino?

grass

Black Rhino. The black rhino’s diet consists of just about 40 percent grass. The rest of his diet is composed of twigs, leaves and even small branches. Although black rhinos will pick up things to eat from the ground, they will also take small branches and twigs, as well as fruits, directly from trees and shrubs.

Kangaroos ?

Kangaroos are herbivores. They eat grasses, flowers, leaves, ferns, moss and even insects. Like cows, kangaroos regurgitate their food and re-chew it before it is ready to be totally digested. A juvenile kangaroo views the outside world from the pouch of an adult female Eastern gray kangaroo.2 Mar 2016

Monkeys ?

fruits/Bananas

Most monkeys are omnivores. Monkeys love eating ripe fruits and seeds but, they also eat vegetables. Beside bark and leaves, they eat honey and flowers also. The howler monkey is known as the loudest land animal.

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