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London Zoo began an annual weigh-in on Thursday with keepers keen to find out what effect the zoo’s longest closure since the second world war has had on its animals, having noticed some had suffered lockdown blues.
The Pygmy goats were so used to seeing children during the day that [during lockdown] they would miss them.
They were actually lining up at the gate to meet people and then at 10 o’clock [when no one was there] they were disappointed.
The loss of our visitors and the loss of income has made things really difficult. It has been the longest period of closure that we’ve had since the second world war.