Birmingham Nature Centre
About Birmingham Nature Centre
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the metropolitan county of West Midlands, within the wider West Midlands region, in England. It is the largest local authority district in England by population and the second-largest city in Britain – commonly referred to as the second city of the United Kingdom – with a population of 1.2 million people in the city proper in 2024. Birmingham borders the Black Country to its west and, together with the city of Wolverhampton and towns including Dudley and Solihull, forms the West Midlands conurbation. The royal town of Sutton Coldfield is incorporated within the city limits to the northeast. Birmingham's urban area has a population of 2.7 million and its wider metropolitan area has a population of 4.3 million.
On the show — 4 mentions total
In the early 2000s, a red panda won Brummy of the Year. There was a red panda called Babu who escaped from the Birmingham Nature Centre in 2005, and found four days later, but in the interim, it was a big story of where's he gone and they called him the Houdini of red pandas.
from 401: No Such Thing As Scandalnavia, 2021-11-26 at 00:42:46 · read transcript
Other times Birmingham Nature Centre came up
We have links to this well, very soon, hopefully, our cassette when we're about to give one away because we asked the audience here in Oxford to give us a fact, their favourite fact. James has picked a winner. The winner is it is Ryan O'Reilly and the fact is that in 2005, Babu, a male red panda at Birmingham Nature Centre in Birmingham escaped. He was subsequently named Brummy of the Year.
208: No Such Thing As A Female Egg Thief, 2018-03-23 · listen
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Coordinates: 52.4505, -1.9104