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Red heads should put on their animal tail costumes and head to the zoo this August 19 to celebrate World Orangutan Day.

Twycross zoo is offering free entry to all red heads who turn up on the day to mark the occasion.

Orangutans are an endangered species with many zoos holding breeding programmes to try and help maintain the orangutan population globally. This may include breeding them in captivity, in order to try and reintroduce them to the wild.

There are a number of orangutan babies that have recently been born at the zoo, which...

If you’re looking for summer holiday ideas to keep dinosaur-mad kids busy over the coming weeks, you won’t want to miss the new animatronic experience taking the country by storm: Jurassic Kingdom.

The touring dinosaur experience is a travelling installation of more than 30 animated dinosaurs with moving parts and sound effects. Visitors can admire the life-like dinosaurs on a 60-minute walking tour and learn more about dinosaurs with the activities on offer in what promises to be a fun-filled family day out.

Stationed in Clayton’s Philips Park in Manchester until July 23rd, the dinosaurs have...

If you’re planning a fun fancy dress party with all your family and friends this summer, then you need to make sure you’ve got your best animal tails costumes to hand. With the weather getting warmer and lots of heat waves expected, it’s the perfect time to get together and celebrate the summer. Village News gives their top tips for throwing a great outdoor party to keep everyone happy.

First up plan ahead, it’s never too early to start sorting out what you’ll need. You want to impress your party guests so don’t leave it...

There’s nothing worse than standing around outside your festival venue, dolled up to the nines in your cat tail costumes waiting for hours to be let in. But happy festival-goers could soon bypass this particular horror and start getting on with all the fun thanks to Ticketmaster and a new tie-in with data-over-audio company Lisnr.

According to VentureBeat, this new collaboration will allow people to be admitted to live events using a digital audio broadcast from their smartphones. The tech is going to be used for attendee verification for countless numbers of tickets, although it’ll take...

More and more people are running marathons in fancy dress to raise money for good causes and to raise awareness of the charities they’re racing for, but one fundraiser is taking this to a whole new level.

Ian Sear, director of The Pet Show event in Staffordshire, is taking on five marathons in five days and he’ll be completing each one in a different animal costume. The only common theme is that they’re all pets, although he’s keeping quiet about which animals he’ll be dressing up as.

He’ll no doubt have a selection of animal...