More Than 10,000 Animals Counted In Annual Stock Take At London Zoo

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00:00So today is the annual stock take here at London Zoo and the reality is we always know

00:14how many animals we have at the zoo, we count them every day, but this is a formal process

00:18that we do once per year.

00:20We register all of the results on an international database called ZIMS and also we register

00:26the results with our local licensing authority, it's part of our zoo license.

00:31Once we collect all of that data we share it with zoos around the whole world and it

00:35helps us make an informed decision when it comes to our critically endangered breeding

00:40programmes, not just here at London Zoo but at all of the zoos globally that we collaborate

00:44with.