Keepers at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo have coaxed thousands of animals, including aardvarks, spiders and rhinoceroses, to step onto the scales for the attraction's annual weigh-in.As part of their regular check-ups, many creatures great and small are having their vital statistics recorded as a way of keeping track the health and wellbeing of the 10,000 animals at the site near Dunstable, Bedfordshire.

Keepers at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo have coaxed thousands of animals, including aardvarks, spiders and rhinoceroses, to step onto the scales for the attraction's annual weigh-in.As part of their regular check-ups, many creatures great and small are having their vital statistics recorded as a way of keeping track the health and wellbeing of the 10,000 animals at the site near Dunstable, Bedfordshire.