You know how people often say on their children’s birthdays that it makes them feel old? Well that’s how I’m starting to feel about the 19th of January…I almost can’t believe it myself, and I’m sure a lot of you guys probably can’t either, but this year our young chimpanzee Elizabeth is celebrating her second birthday!…
December is well known for being a month of celebration, with Christmas fast approaching (less than 2 weeks to go everyone!), festivities and high spirits are all around. However before Christmas arrives there’s another, admittedly lesser known, day of celebration I’d like to draw your attention to! December 14th 2019 will mark the 19th annual…
Hey everyone, in case you haven’t heard we’ve had a very busy and exciting couple of weeks here at Wingham Wildlife Park due to the arrival of our latest addition; Molly, our new Bornean Orangutan! She arrived at the park on 24th October and has come to us from Twycross zoo as part of a…
Did you know that humans and animals don’t always agree on the meaning of a smile? Hi everyone, Nadine here dropping in with this week’s episode of the keeper blog! To be honest when I came to writing this one, I struggled to pick a topic to focus on, not because I couldn’t think of…
My blog this week is in celebration of International Primate Day which is on 1st September. This is an annual event which began in 2005 and celebrated by zoos and charities worldwide. Its purpose is to highlight the wide and diverse group of primates, covering all species from great apes to lesser apes, marmosets to…
If you have been following the keeper blogs, then I hope you will remember that we have had a very baby focused year here on the carnivore section at Wingham, with baby otters and baby binturongs (if you missed our earlier baby blogs you can still find out about our little ones early stages by…
With record breaking temperatures last week some of you may be wondering how we help to keep our animals comfortable during the summer. Well, keeping cool can be a lot of fun and our keepers use a variety of methods to make sure our animals don’t get hot and bothered. With animals native to locations…
So this week I’ll be talking about my favourite group of primates, Gibbons. Not only are they a striking animal to look at but they are also unique amongst other primate groups in their genealogy, social structure and behaviour. All these aspects added together make them my favourite primates to have the privilege of working…
My blog entry this week is a bit different; I won’t be talking to you about carnivores! I recently got back from a 2-week trip to Egypt. A lot of people hear “Egypt”, they think Pyramids and I can understand why. I, however, went for the sea. I was already a PADI Open Water Scuba…
Get ready for rainbow flags and parades! June is pride month. So what is pride month? For the month of June people celebrate the history and differences of LGBTQ+ people. Whilst people are waving their rainbow flags in support of the LGBTQ community, little do people know that there are homosexual occurrences found throughout nature!…
