The Egyptian Fruit Bat has a sharp muzzle, large dark eyes and pointed ears. Like other fruit bats, it looks a little foxlike, and is often referred to as a 'flying fox'.

These bats cluster in huge colonies of up to thousands of individuals, usually hanging from one foot from the ceiling of a cave, with their wings folded closely around their body.

When they return from their night's foraging just before daybreak, the bats make a great deal of noise as they jostle for a position in the cave's dark recesses.

Like other bats, the Egyptian fruit bat has incredible powers of echolocation, making a series of repeated tongue clicks which are bounced back from obstacles.

Once a fruit tree has been located, the bats circle it before settling on the branches, using their acute sense of smell as well as their eyesight to locate the ripe fruit. The juicy pulp is either consumed immediately or taken away in special cheek pouches.

These bats came from a private collection.

Lady and Tramp are domestic ferrets and they were bred to be pets. They arrived here as their owner could not look after them anymore.

Unfortunately, their wild cousins are highly endangered.

The wild Black footed ferrets have broader heads than these domestic ferrets and their faces are more blunt and less pointed, their legs and feet are black or dark brown, giving them the name black-footed.

Massive hunting and poisoning campaigns against the prairie dog, its main food source, caused the ferret to decline.

The last wild black-footed ferrets were taken into captivity in 1987. They were bred in captivity and today, some ferrets have been reintroduced to a few limited areas in the state of Wyoming.

The Black-footed Ferret is the only endangered domestic animal on earth!

And all of the black-footed ferrets alive today descended from just 18 individuals!

Perhaps the most distinctive characteristic is the chinchillas soft silky fur which keeps out the bitter cold of its mountain habitat.

Unfortunately it is so soft and pleasant to human touch chinchillas long been desirable and prized by the fashion industry which has led this species to become endangered in the wild.

Although now farms have been introduced and they are not hunted in the wild so frequently.

In the wild chinchillas are found in colonies sometimes 100 strong sheltering in caves and crevices.