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Bristol Zoo

Bristol Zoo

About Bristol Zoo

Bristol Zoo was a zoo in the city of Bristol in South West England. The zoo's stated mission was to "maintain and defend" biodiversity through breeding endangered species, conserving threatened species and habitats and promoting a wider understanding of the natural world".

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There's a tortoise in Bristol Zoo in 2014 called Helen who had a terrible nasal infection and they gave her a course of antibiotics and lots of sinus rinses and stuff. The reason is that tortoises can't cough.

from No Such Thing As A Hedgehog In A Lifeboat, 2026-02-26 at 00:44:18 ยท read transcript

Other times Bristol Zoo came up

  1. So it's bizarre. It's not just Melbourne Zoo. Loads of zoos have done this. There are zoos in, there's one in Devon called Painton Zoo. There's Bristol Zoo. There's been the same thing. It's because humans are great at breeding bananas, sweeter and sweeter and sweeter. In the wild, monkeys wouldn't get anywhere near this kind of sugar. They're not even eat, I try to find proof that monkeys do eat bananas.

    No Such Thing As An Easy Tweet, 2018-10-26 ยท listen

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