Our new picnic area was opened in the spring this year and includes new kiddie's rides, ice cream parlour and a burger bar. It's a great place for groups or families to have a bite to eat or an ice cream, then relax and enjoy the Scottish summer sun.

New enclosures have been errected for our racoons, palm civits and scottish wild cats. We have also constructed new paddocks for our pigmy goats and our minature donkeys. All of the animals have now settled in and are enjoying their new homes.

The new meerkat enclosure was constructed during the spring of 2010. The enclosure will be named "Alex's Meercat House" as a tribute to Alex Oag, our volunteer and friend who passed away on 29th March this year. The meercats have settled into their new home and we think there are some babies on the way. It will be a few more weeks yet before they will venture out from the nest (Fingers crossed!!)

Our black and white ruffed lemur called "Sookie" that featured on TV Show Michaela's Zoo Babies gave birth to three lovely triplets on 28th April 2010. Mum, dad, big sister and the three baby lemurs are all doing well. Sparkle our Shetland pony gave birth to a foal on 1st June 2010. Corrie is the first Shetland pony to be born at our zoo and has settled in. He is one of our star attractions, and is enjoying the attention from our visitors. Our snowy owl successfully produced three hatchlings between 19th and 29th June 2010. All three chicks are doing very well. And finally, we are pleased to announce the birth of our new wallaby. He/She can be seen peeping out from mum's pouch if you look closely.

We would like to welcome Tin Tin and Tuxedo, our new minature donkeys, and a pair of peacocks to Five Sisters Zoo.

The Zoo celebrates Stumpy reaching the old age of 24. Stumpy is possibly the oldest Lemur in Europe or the world as most Lemurs only live to about 20. The Lemurs came from Edinburgh Zoo fairly wild but we have worked with them to make them very friendly. The Lemurs can be seen at the zoo 7 days a week. Click the video below to see Zoo keeper Graeme Curran being interviewed by Deadline Scotland.

DID YOU KNOW that you can adopt one of our animals for just £70 per year. For this you would receive a personalised certificate, a profile on the animal, a photograph of the animal, three complimentary entry tickets to the zoo (named adoptee only) and your name on our Adoption Wall.

YOU CAN ALSO try your hand at being a keeper for the day. For a donation of £70.00 you can shadow one of our keepers going about the daily tasks of feeding, cleaning and looking after many of our animals. At the end of your day you would receive a personalised certificate and a photograph of your favourite animal.

EXCLUSIVE - When you visit the zoo, limited tickets are available to enter the enclosure and feed the Ringtailed Lemurs. These tickets are available for a small donation of £5.00 each and can be purchased with your entry tickets, but be quick as they are very popular and only 6 are available at one time. Feeding times are 1.00pm and 3.30pm.

DAILY HANDLING SESSIONS - We also hold daily handling sessions in our new education room. Why not come along and try handling some of our creepy crawlies or one of our snakes. Tickets are availabe for £1.00 and these classes take place every day at 12.00, 2.00 and 4.00pm.