Several agricultural colleges and two zoos have closed, ramblers are being urged not to walk in the countryside, and even RSPCA inspectors are having to avoid setting foot on farmland.

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Staff at the two Devon zoos are making sure animals are comfortable in sub-zero temperatures.

BBC: Devon zoos coping with freezing weather

Two feature Zoos and Gangstaz.

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Two things have changed zoos for the better.

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The zoos agreed it was best to move her to Cincinnati, where two experienced mother gorillas are available to serve as surrogates.

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File this in the quirky Super Bowl wager department: Zoos in Baltimore and San Francisco are gambling with the homes of two ravens and a rhino.

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Two of them remain at the zoo, while the other three have departed to zoos in France.

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