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The Last Tuesday Society present The Animal Party
Photos by Sin Bozkurt www.sinbozkurtphotography.com
BE THE BEAST YOU’VE ALWAYS BEEN AT THE ANIMAL PARTY THIS FRIDAY 9 AND SATURDAY 10 MARCH
Come and gyrate in our jungle, let your tiger out of its cage and free the beast that lurks within you.
Cast your own paw and make a poking stick or slither through your natural habitat at our ball pit. Wallow in the Chocolate Watering
Hole in the heart of the forest. Feast your feral eyes in the Animal Cinema and swill out your gills with a dip in our bubbling oasis
(formerly known as the bath house). Forage for fodder at the Midnight Feast and create your own critters at our Vegetable Animal Making.
Also featuring splat rat, a bucking bronco, a disco zoo, all night popcorn and candy floss.
Ten percent of all Animal Party proceeds will be donated to animal charities. The Last Tuesday Society would like to dedicate this party to the
conservation of Pygmy Hippos. Join us to support our mission to conserve wild animals and their habitats on a global scale.
Dress code: animals, no costume, no entry.
Costumes and tickets available from http://theanimalparty.com/
Friday 9 and Saturday 10 March, 10pm – 3am
Early Bird ticket £16.50 – includes £1.65 donation to the ZSL Pygmy Hippo Conservation Trust
Family ticket (x5) £60.00 – includes £6.00 donation to the ZSL Pygmy Hippo Conservation Trust
TO BOOK TICKETS AND FOR FURTHER INFORMATION VISIT http://theanimalparty.org
A £1 restoration levy for The Old Vic Tunnels will be included in the ticket fee.
TICKETS, TICKETS, TICKETS: 10% of ticket revenue to towards the conservation of Pygmy Hippos.
If you would like to donate more, please purchase a Bronze, Silver, or Gold ticket. The natural world needs our help, so we need yours.
Join us and support our mission to conserve wild animals and their habitats on a global scale.
Bronze ticket £20 – includes £5 donation to the ZSL Pygmy Hippo Conservation Trust
Silver ticket £25 – includes £10 donation to the ZSL Pygmy Hippo Conservation Trust
Gold ticket £30 – incudes £15 donation to the ZSL Pygmy Hippo Conservation Trust
The Old Vic Tunnels,
Leake Street Entrance,
London SE1 7NN
The Viktor Wynd & Suzette Field Charitable Foundation are delighted to be working with The Zoological Society of London and would like to dedicate this party to their important work in the conservation of Pygmy Hippos by giving them 10% of the ticket revenue.
The Old Vic Tunnels have also kindly agreed to donate 10% of the bar revenue to save hippos.
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The name hippopotamus derives from the Greek for 'river horse', and is a particularly apt description for the pygmy hippo, which spends much of its time resting in rivers or swamps. Native to West Africa, they can be found in Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Nigeria and the Ivory Coast. The species has a severely fragmented distribution and is under increasing pressure from logging, farming and human settlement.
Generally solitary, pygmy hippos usually spend daylight hours in or around the water keeping cool, but emerge to feed in the forest at night. Their diet is exclusively vegetarian, consisting of plants, grasses, tender shoots, leaves and fallen fruit. Their skin, as with common Hippo, contains special pores that secrete a white or pinkish substance known as “blood-sweat”. This material is thick, oily and protective; it may act as sunscreen and antibacterial agent.
Why are Pygmy Hippos important?
At the Zoological Society London our EDGE of Existence programme highlights and conserves one-of–a-kind species that are on the verge
of extinction. We have scored the world's mammals and amphibians according to how Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE) they are. Pygmy Hippos are unique in their evolutionary development; recent genetic studies have revealed that their closest living relatives are in fact whales. Identified to be under threat, they have an ICUN ‘Endangered’ status. It is estimated that there is less than 3,000 of these unique creatures left in the wild, it is vital for us to protect and preserve their habitats.
Protecting the Species
The Pygmy Hippo is legally protected in all countries in which it exists, but this can be inconsistent due to lack of resources and civil unrest.
Currently ZSL has monitoring projects with an EDGE Fellow (an in country expert) in Sapo National Park, Liberia and conservation biologists in Sierra Leone.However, there is still much more to be done. Habitat protection is critical, through the extension of the protected areas network; adequate enforcement of legislation against hunting and logging in these areas; development of sustainable forest management practices; improved control of human settlements and subsistence farming activities in and around protected areas. Finally, we need comprehensive public education and awareness programmes.
Pygmy Hippos at ZSL
As part of our programme for protecting this endangered species and educating the public, we have Pygmy Hippos at both London and Whipsnade Zoos. Thug and Nicky-noo reside at ZSL London Zoo in Regent’s Park and at Whipsnade we were lucky enough to expand the family there with a baby pygmy hippo born this year, Sapo.