Whipsnade Shaped like a lion, it was made for Whipsnade Zoo. During the Second World War, this chalk image of a lion on Bison Hill, owned by Whipsnade Zoo, was covered with a black sheet in order not to attract attention from the German bomber planes. Whipsnade Whipsnade is a small village and civil parish in the county of Bedfordshire. It lies on the eastward tail spurs of the Chiltern Hills, about 2.5 miles south-south-west of Dunstable. It is the home of Whipsnade Tree Cathedral, as well as the famous ZSL Whipsnade Zoo, and is the namesake of Whipsnade Park Golf
Louisville Zoo zoo added a bachelor group of seven vampire bats obtained from the Philadelphia Zoo. And another 10 males from the Sedgwick County Zoo were added to the group in late May 2006. Eventually the exhibit will house around 40 bats. The exhibit is designed to look like an old mine shaft. Zoo guests can get an up-close view of the bats flying, eating and raising families. The zoo has a distinctive zoological exhibit called "Islands", which is the first exhibit in the world that uses a system of rotating a variety of animals into one exhibit. This way, the animals