Edinburgh Zoo

This guide to Edinburgh Zoo follows the accidental start of its famous penguin parade, back to around 1950 when a keeper forgot to lock a gate and a handful of curious birds followed him out. It traces the zoo's deeper history with penguins too, including its claim as the first zoo anywhere to successfully breed them, with a king penguin chick hatched in 1919. Listen for the story of the whaling ship that brought the first three penguins here five years earlier.