Let me introduce you to Molly, Markus and Albert our group of Common Cusimanse. They joined us in early 2019 and can be seen next to the smooth coated otters. Definitely for me, along with the Egyptian fruitbats, these guys are one of the most overlooked or forgotten about species in the park by visitors….
My recent trip down to Devon and Cornwall gave me food for thought for my blog this week. However, sadly its not about Cornish pasties or whether jam or cream goes onto your scones first. The Islands of the Philippines are on the agenda this week and how rich they are in species diversity. My…
This week my blog will be on our mischievous mob of Meerkats Suricata suricatta. We currently have 5 adults Bill, Ken, Ariel, Kiara, Pinky and excitingly we now also have 3 babies, born on May 4th. At the moment we don’t know their genders but I think with their date of birth being May 4th…
Hiyaaaa!!! I’m sure you have all seen enough of my face over these past few weeks so I’m back to writing blogs for you all to enjoy and hopefully learn a thing or two about some of species that we have on the mammal section at the park. It has been lovely in the recent…
Happy New Year to you all! My blog this week is going to be about feeding out browse (leaves) and how certain animals that are found on the mammal section love to it eat. Sometimes they even prefer it to the vegetable and pellets that they usually scoff down. We feed browse to the Giraffes,…
I am very pleased to let you know (if you don’t already know) that we now have 4 Rothschild Giraffe Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi at the park so our tower is now complete. We have recently welcomed our two new males from Longleat Safari Park. It felt very much like déjà vu when the day arrived…
International Red Panda Day is the 3rd Saturday of September each year. On this day, zoos, schools, and other groups around the world celebrate by creating as much red panda publicity as possible. This aims to raise public awareness and support for red panda conservation issues. This year has been slightly different to previous years…
I think we can all agree it has been far too long since I last spoke to you all about the Lowland Tapirs at the park. For anyone that might be new to the park or may not know much about our pair, I will give you a little refresher about them. Nando our male…
Firstly, I’d like to thank everyone for the support they’ve shown Wingham over these last few months, it’s been overwhelming. It’s been nice to see that you guys love the animals as much as us keepers do. Doing the live talk/feeds have also been thoroughly enjoyable as well. I hope everyone finds themselves well and…
This week my blog will be about our mischievous mob of Meerkats Suricata suricatta. Our Mob We currently have 6 individuals called Amara, Candy, Kalia, Sandy, Enzo and Kovu. They are all quite different in shape, size, colour and personality much like us really. To the trained eye they’re quite easy to tell apart. Most…
