The annual count of animals is under way at London Zoo as keepers take stock after four meerkats and an aardvark died in a fire before Christmas.
The zoo reopened on Christmas Eve, but the stocktake – originally set for January 2 – was postponed until this week to “get more staff involved” and give the zoo more planning time.
More than 19,000 individual animals are counted in the annual stocktake (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Max the eagle owl gets wise (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Keeper Zu Zanna takes it easy with the penguins (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Tony Cholerton puts up with no monkey business (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Zookeepers count up during feeding time and take a microchip reading (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Laura Carrigan goes back to basics to count the lemurs (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
Collette Gibbings counts moon jellyfish (Kirsty O’Connor/PA)
