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…
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…
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…
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…
WINGHAM WILDLIFE PARK JOINS THE THRIVING TOGETHER CAMPAIGN TO HIGHLIGHT THE WORLD’S MOST IMPORTANT YET IGNORED ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION The Thriving Together campaign recognizes that family planning is critically important not only for women and girls but also for the environment Today, Wingham Wildlife Park joins over 150 other leading environmental and reproductive health organizations to…
My blog this week is in celebration of World Chimpanzee Day which is on the 14th July (this also happens to be Fritz’s birthday so it’s a double celebration). So why is World Chimpanzee Day held on this date? The 14th July, 1960 is the date a young woman called Jane Goodall first stepped foot…
In this weeks blog it gives me great pleasure to talk to you about the colony of Egyptian Fruitbats (Rousettus aegyptiacus) here at the park and compare them to the ones we might find in our own back gardens. For me bats are such an underrated species but are so important to have in the…
