Apart from the animal antics, children will enjoy the regular feedings, the minitrain ride through the zoo grounds, the African safari plains and, if all else fails, the big playground.

From klepto creatures caught on tape to unbelievable pet plastic surgery, check out animal antics that became tabloid news... Only on Weird, True and Freaky.

Lynn Scherr, the "20/20" correspondent, dressed incongruously for this wildlife show in jewels and a white pantsuit, presides over this silver-anniversary celebration, bringing news value to animal antics while she's on screen, and also sapping it of rugged romance, which is too bad.

The director, Jonathan Kaplan, lays on the animal antics without stint; it's a one-ring circus.

But today the Daily Mirror reveals the shameful secret behind the innocent animal antics at Longleat in Wiltshire and Woburn in Bedfordshire.

AGES 3-5 They will have trouble following the plot, although they may enjoy the animal antics.

I watch them and they watch me, but whereas I feel, possibly mistakenly, that I can comprehend their animal antics, they find me bewilderingly inscrutable.

Last week's note on the animal antics that Durham County Fire Brigade gets up to rang a bell with reader H Featherstone from Bishop Auckland.

AGES 7-12 The perfect audience: they'll enjoy the animal antics and the slapstick without groaning at the jokes.

Bad driving, animal antics and your-fly-is-open gags are eagerly exploited, and the screenplay need not ever be believed.