In this blog you will get to know a little about team carnivores, responsible for taking care of a wide range of species here at Wingham Wildlife Park. I had a chat with our team to find out about why they became keepers, how they got into the industry and their favourite species to work…
In this blog I will be discussing what goes into training big cats for voluntary blood draws, a procedure in which the cat is trained to allow a sample of blood to be taken, usually from the tail, whilst fully conscious. These samples are taken to check for a variety of markers that indicate the…
In this blog I will be delving into the trials and tribulations of medicating our animals on carnivore section and who is good as gold and who could do with improvement! Our animals have access to round the clock veterinary care and sometimes they need to be medicated for various reasons to keep them in…
28th May is World Otter Day! We are lucky to be home to 2 species of otter, the smooth-coated otter and the Asian short-clawed otter. Smooth-coated Otters These otters come from south and south-east Asia, living alongside rivers, rice paddies, swamps and lakes. These semi-aquatic mammals are as comfortable in water as they are on…
What it takes to look after and enrich our moon bears. In this blog I’m going to talk about looking after our two moon bears, or Asiatic black bears, Aroon and Mika, and delve into what goes on in a day for the bears and how we keep them happy. What is Enrichment? Enrichment is…
As temperatures are dropping low at the moment I’d like to talk about our kings of keeping warm in the cold – the Arctic wolves! Arctic wolves or Polar wolves live in the arctic region of North America and Greenland. Here the climate is extremely harsh with temperatures rarely rising above -30 degrees Celsius and…
We recently have had Lonan join our collection who is settling in nicely, in this blog you can read up on our newest addition. The Geoffroy’s cat (leopardus geoffroyi) is a small cat native to South America. They are similar in size to a domestic cat weighing in at around 3- 5kg. Lonan can be…
I have lots of different wildlife living on my doorstep, visits from shrews, nesting buzzards, beetles, bats and all sorts of other wildlife frequenting my home. The loudest neighbours at the moment are the little owls! Little owls are the smallest species of owl in the UK and live up to their name, standing at…
Hello, in this blog I will be giving some more updates on the training going on at the park and how everyone is getting on. Capybara Our lovely capy’s have been undergoing recall training since they arrived at the park last year. This is a signal used to get them to come over to the…
Emergency recall is one behaviour which I’ve been so excited to start. It is a challenging behaviour but so rewarding to see when it begins to take shape. What is an emergency recall? An emergency recall is much stricter than the normal recall. It is necessary that we do this for the animals to get…
