A westcountry zoo has been so successful in breeding critically endangered exotic monkeys that it is sending a pair to France to help conserve the species. Newquay Zoo has been breeding the pied tamarins, one of the 25 most endangered primate species in the world.

A group of crested macaques, more used to tropical rain forests in Indonesia, huddling for warmth at the Dublin Zoo in Dublin, Ireland on Friday. The primates are an endangered species in their native land due to hunting and habitat destruction.

THESE two tiger cubs were feline fine yesterday after being officially welcomed to Dublin Zoo.

DUBLIN (Reuters) -- Authorities at Dublin Zoo, worried by the erratic behavior of their female polar bear, commissioned a study to find the problem and discovered she simply had a bad case of marital stress.Experts monitored the behavior of the bear and her mate and concluded the female's constant, agitated pacing of their shared enclosure was due to the male."The report found that the female demonstrated symptoms of stress when she was near the male and to remove this stress a separate area or retreat exclusive to the female polar bear was recommended," Dublin Zoo director Leo Oosterweghel said.Now the pair, Ootec and Spunky, are to be moved to new accommodation in eastern Hungary where Spunky can chill out in her own exclusive space.Oosterweghel said it was not possible to redesign the enclosure at Dublin Zoo to separate the bears, so staff looked at a number of European locations before deciding on Hungary's Sosto Zoo."The enclosure in Hungary will allow each polar bear to spend tim