Boo At The Zoo

ZSL London Zoo will be hosting a fun week of spooky goings on this Halloween half term (25 October - 2 November) with a little help from some of its furry, feathery and scaly friends.

Boo at the Zoo will offer visitors a packed week of ghoulish animal treats that will see them howling with delight as they get up close and personal with mighty owls, enter the Black Widow’s Lair and face a mystery feely-box challenge.

Putting on an extra brave face, visitors will travel through hair-raising activity stops, meeting rats, bats, spiders and owls, using their Boo at the Zoo activity passport to gain stamps.

On their journeys visitors can stop by the Zoo’s Victorian Grim Curiosity Shoppe, full of creepy and eccentric objects from the Zoological Society of London’s historical collections, and join in with fun spells with a surprise reptilian guest.

Throughout the day the mysterious Mr Darkmire will draw back the curtain of the Grim Curiosity Shoppe to reveal a hidden inner sanctum – the Owl Emporium. A secret room, lit only by flickering lanterns, visitors will be wowed by the Zoo’s incredible owls demonstrating their amazing nocturnal abilities.

Other alarming activity zones include the ‘Bat Cave’, where travellers of all ages can create crafty creatures and make tasty treats for the Zoo’s own cloud of Seba’s short-tailed bats to enjoy, and Meet the Rat Pack where those who dare can experience close encounters of the rodent kind.