Birmingham Nature Centre

Birmingham Nature Centre (formerly Birmingham Zoo) is a small zoo on the edge of Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, England. It is managed by Birmingham City Council. The zoo features mainly small mammals. Its occupants include: The Nature centre used to have a pair of male Red Pandas. However these have been re-housed as part of the national breeding program. Ming Ming is visiting a female Red Panda in the Welsh Mountain Zoo. Babu is a red panda who disappeared from the nature centre in November 2005 and spent four days "on the loose" before being discovered. Nature centre staff believe he was blown out of a tree and found himself outside his enclosure. His disappearance and the city-wide panda hunt that ensued made national headlines....