The London Zoo
The London Zoo
London Zoo is open every day of the year except Christmas Day.
Opening times
2006 Opening hours:
10am - 16.30pm Feb 11 - Mar 5
10am - 17.30pm Mar 6 - Oct 23
10am - 16.30pm Oct 23 - Oct 28
10am - 16.00pm Oct 29th - onwards
Last admission is one hour before advertised closing time.
London Zoo unveiled a new exhibition last August - eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig leaves to cover their modesty.
The "Human Zoo" is intended to show the basic nature of human beings as they frolic throughout the August bank holiday weekend.
"We have set up this exhibit to highlight the spread of man as a plague species and to communicate the importance of man's place in the planet's ecosystem," London Zoo said.
The scantily-clad volunteers will be treated as animals and kept amused at the central London zoo with games and music.
"I actually think the fig leaves will be enough to cover us up, it's no worse than a swimming pool," said volunteer Simon Spiro, 19, from New Malden, south of the British capital.
Spiro, selected from dozens of hopefuls in an internet competition, said he was excited by the prospect of monkeying around on the zoo's Bear Mountain.
"I'm a veterinary student so the idea of working for a zoo was something that appealed to me.
"I thought it would be fun and interesting because I'm an outdoorsy kind of person," he said.
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Brendan Carr, 25, from Aylesbury, southern England, wrote a poem in his bid to get on the mountain.
"I'm funky like a monkey and as cool as a cat, talk more than a parrot, up all night like a bat," it went.
"I got a laugh like a hyena but get the hump like a camel, so cover me in fig leaves as I'm the ultimate mammal."