London Zoo

London Zoo, Regents Park, NW1, to 24 Dec, zsl.orgIAThe Saltire 2011, Haddington, Saturday to 30 NovLiterature, racing, a farmers' market, and plenty of feasting and folk music in East Lothian for St Andrew's Day.

This week's new events 2011

The staff at the London Zoo certainly have their work cut out for them: they are currently in the process of counting each and every one of their animals.

PHOTOS: London Zoo Begins Annual Count Of Every Animal The Huffington Post 2011

The most advanced zoos around the world, including the London Zoo and Central Park Zoo, are shutting down their elephant exhibits and there are no reports that prove lower attendance rates for zoos without live elephants.

Marissa Bronfman: Bob Barker Says There's Nothing Right About Keeping Elephants in Captivity Marissa Bronfman 2011

So hats off to Jelf Employee Benefits, organisers of today's seminar at London Zoo.

Hugh Muir's Diary 2011

The most advanced zoos around the world, including the London Zoo and Central Park Zoo, are shutting down their elephant exhibits and there are no reports that prove lower attendance rates for zoos without live elephants.

Marissa Bronfman: Bob Barker Says There's Nothing Right About Keeping Elephants in Captivity Marissa Bronfman 2011

The exhibition is organized by Operation Charm, a Metropolitan Police partnership aimed at tackling illegal trade in endangered wildlife and runs for one month at London Zoo.

Chinese Demand Revives Ivory Trade Alexandra Wexler 2011

Getty snapped some shots of two female lorises getting their first health exam at the London Zoo.

Slender Loris Gets A Checkup (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011

De Waal: Solly Zuckerman was an anatomist who, tragically, established a group of hamadryas baboons at the London Zoo in the wrong way and then assumed their murderous behavior was the same in nature.

Eric Michael Johnson: Frans de Waal on Politics, Fairness, and Human Nature Eric Michael Johnson 2011

Getty Images Elephants carved from illegal Ivory on display at an 'Endangered Species' London Zoo exhibition this monthat the London Zoo on September 12, 2011 in London, England.

Chinese Demand Revives Ivory Trade Alexandra Wexler 2011

There are stuffed animals, none better known than the two pandas – Ching Ching, who died at London Zoo in 1985, and another which was used as a rug until the 1930s.

New National Museum of Scotland unveiled after £47m revamp 2011