On 7th September the Wingham Wildlife Park Animal Welfare charity fundraising team finished the last of a series of 3 different obstacle runs for the summer period. All of them were 5 km races and all had a common feature – obstacles! But these obstacles varied from event to event, with the first 2 being…
This week my blog to you will be about some of the spikier members we have on the Mammal section. If you hadn’t already guessed, it will be about our three African Crested Porcupines, Hystrix cristata. In the last few years we’ve successfully bred from them and some of you may have been fortunate enough…
Anting My blog this week was inspired by a video I watched recently of a Song Thrush seemingly hopping about and being attacked by an army of ants! In fact there is much more going on here than meets the eye. Many birds seem to actively seek out high densities of ants and carry out…
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…
Hi, my name is Molly and I am 7. I am very excited to be picked as a junior journalist for Wingham Wildlife Park I visited Wingham Wildlife Park on a sunny day in August with my Mum and little brother Jacob. I really enjoyed seeing all the animals at the park but there were…
Hi! For those that don’t yet know me, my name is Ellie Gilbey, junior journalist for Wingham Wildlife park and this is my first blog of a series of experiences at Wingham. Right from my entrance to the park, I found a variety of different species that instantly grabbed my attention as I was pleasantly…
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…
We all get to a certain time in our life where we start to slow down, aches and pains start to creep in and we may need to go to the doctor more often. It’s exactly the same for animals. As they age they also begin to slow down, become less mobile, and perhaps age…
In this weeks blog I’ll be informing you all about our Northern Luzon Giant Cloud Rat Phloeomys pallidus, not a common species within animal collections (we are 1 of only 4 collections in the UK to have them). They are also known as the ‘Cloudrunner’ as they mainly live high up in the canopy of trees, which is…
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…
