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…
At Wingham we have a pair of western dwarf crocodiles and we have been working with them to scale train them, in this blog you’ll see how it’s going. Some snapping facts Dwarf crocodiles are the smallest crocodile species, rarely reaching a length of over 1.5 meters. This nocturnal species are opportunistic feeders, hunting for…
In this blog I’m going to talk about tiger, Tora’s recent contraceptive implant change and general health check. So, who is Tora? Tora is a 5 year old hybrid tiger currently housed at Sandwich Wildlife Park with another tiger Duke. Her implant was due to be changed so I did some training with her to…
This blog will be celebrating ‘Fun At Work Day’ and dedicated to our keepers with some photos of them doing some of the fun and the not-so fun parts of the job! I wanted to give the keepers a much-needed giggle for the end of January by catching their best side at work. *Some of…
I love hedgehogs and this time of year I always think about them and what we can do to help them out. Hedgehog populations in the UK have fallen by approximately two thirds in the last 25 years in urban areas and fallen by half in rural areas. They are in serious decline, however there…
Georgia is sharing what a typical day at work looks like for her here WWP from weighing to target training and everything in between.
Hi guys, in this blog I will be talking about our gorgeous girl Kaia the Amur leopard, who made the move down from Sandwich to Wingham Wildlife Park. Kaia came to us from Marwell Zoo and has been the queen of sass at Sandwich Wildlife Park for the past few years. Amur leopards are classed…
Yes, you can train a crocodile (find more here about why training is important and who else I work with)! We have a pair of Cuban crocodiles, Rico and Havana, who have been trained to enter a shut away area. This is in order for our keepers to safely enter the enclosure. Clever crocs The…
I am very lucky and get to work with our 3 Bornean Orangutans. Molly, Jin and Belayan. These guys have incredible characters and it has been a joy to get to know each of the orangutans personalities. From the very start of my journey with them at WWP, Molly was the one I spent most…
Flighty, nervous or shy animals can be quite difficult to train, especially when there is a large group of them. It only takes one of them to set off the whole group. The keepers need to be able to do a head count in the morning and also a health check daily. If we have…
