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….
With Tara’s 26th birthday on 5th September and the chimp’s 5th anniversary of their arrival to Wingham fast approaching next month, I thought it would be a great opportunity to give you hints and tips for telling the chimps apart and a little bit about their personalities. Tara So, let’s start with the birthday girl…
Something a bit different from me this week, and for once I’m not going to talk about birds! Whilst I do love my birds, at heart I adore all aspects of natural history. My happy place is in the middle of a wildflower meadow in spring listening to the bird song and the insects busy…
It has been a little while since I’ve written a blog post, but the other day I was doing some invertebrate surveying in the new bug garden and I just had to write about all the wildlife which we see at the park. We are of course a wildlife park, and we mostly specialise in exotic…
So today I’m going to introduce you to some of our smallest carnivores. You may have already visited ‘the bug garden’ here at Wingham? At the end of the walk is the bug house where you will find a menagerie of invertebrates, including many carnivores. These tiny predators are often given a lot of bad…
I present to you today a selection of gorgeous photos of my colleagues and I posing as some of our animals in a photoshoot I’ve been working on for a few weeks. George did a fantastic job as Molly, she also took very little persuading to take part, 10/10. Did you know? Orangutans are semi-solitary…
This week we celebrated the 8th birthday of our resident slow coach Sid, so I thought we would delve into the realms of everyone’s favourite lazy tree dweller, the sloth.There are 6 different species of sloth found across Central and South America: Pygmy three-toed sloth (Bradypus pygmaeus) Maned sloth (Bradypus torquatus) Pale-throated sloth (Bradypus tridactylus)…
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 I am going to be talking about something which we all do, but we don’t always like to talk about. Let’s face it, poo is pretty gross. It smells, if you have children you’ll know that it can get everywhere and it’s a never-ending job to clean it up. However, poo, faeces, stools,…
During our lockdown Facebook live streams, there was quite a lot of interest in the wild birds around the park and wild birds in general. So in my blog this week I’m going to point you in the direction of my top five places to go birding right here in east Kent. 1. Sandwich Bay…
