Children will be able to watch their favourite animals from home as Chester Zoo's live virtual tours return.
The online events were massively popular during last year's lockdowns and are back starting tomorrow, Friday, January 7.
The zoo will host its 'virtual zoo day' live on its Facebook page starting at 10am, broadcasting animal action from various habitats around the zoo at different points in the day.
The full line-up includes everything from pandas and crocodiles to its much-loved elephants. And viewers will get a good look at Monsoon Forest, the UK's biggest indoor zoo building, which reopened in October following a devastating fire at the zoo in 2018.
Here are the time slots for different animals are:
- 10am - Red pandas
- 11am - Asian elephants
- 12pm - Sunda gharial crocodiles
- 1pm - Monsoon Forest
They could be subject to change but staff are also promising some surprises throughout the day.
The videos can also be viewed on the zoo's YouTube channel here.
Chester Zoo also has more than 100 activities you can access online - on all things animals, science and conservation.
Monsoon Forest is now home to nearly 70 different animal species including silvery gibbons, rhinoceros hornbills, Sunda gharial crocodiles and tentacled snakes - a reptile that cannot be seen anywhere else in the UK.
During last year's lockdown zoos set up web cams for people to see their animals with live streams.
It's not just zoos where we can capture animals either. The Wildlife Trust in Cumbria has a badger cam live streaming the animals from Ambleside. Dusk is the best time to watch so it depends how late your children are up.
And at Folly Farm in Pembrokeshire, you can watch the goats, sheep and newborn lambs on its barn webcam here.
