Happy New Year and may the New Year bring happiness, peace, and prosperity to you and your family. For this week’s blog I’m talking to you about one of our newest additions to the park, Naked Mole Rats. If you still haven’t come across them yet they are pink, nearly hairless subterranean rodents that kind…
Happy New Year to you all and welcome to my first blog of 2024. We were keeping a secret from you all for 8 months! In 2023 our primate keepers reported positive a pregnancy test on 12th May 2023 for Tara, our critically endangered dominate female Western Chimpanzee. We all had our fingers crossed that…
Hi, it’s Celia again and I’m here with my second blog for Wingham Wildlife Park! I visited the park on Thursday 28th December – Brrr (it was cold!). I arrived after lunch as I wanted to listen to the Big Cat Talk at 2pm. Again, I will concentrate on just two areas of the park…
Deputy Bird Keeper, Ryan When I found out I was doing the Christmas day blog, I struggled to pick a topic. I am a bit of a grinch at Christmas and did struggle to find a topic that would fit in with today that I would genuinely find interesting. That was until I had a…
Christmas is just a few weeks away and many people will be eagerly waiting to spend the day opening gifts and eating some good food. On the topic of gift giving, I thought I would talk about the gifting of pets for Christmas, and to be honest, gifting them in general. Back in 1978 the…
In the middle of November Ruth wrote a blog about 2023 in review with all the exciting developments on the animal side of the park for the previous year and it had lots of exciting events covered. But I wanted to make an addition to this. This is because while I also work on the…
Hi, this week George is taking a break from blogs and this one is coming from me, one of the many Jess’s on our Primate team. This week’s blog is inspired by National Hello Day last week, so I thought it would be a good opportunity to introduce WWP’s wonderful Primate team and let them…
This week my blog is all about the amazing volunteers that we have working at the park. Each volunteer is a part of the keeping team here and it is important to us keepers to make them feel like they are as well. So, I’d just like to say a massive thank you to all…
As this is my last blog for 2023, I’ve decided to a look back and review all the changes that have happened over the past 11 months, here at Wingham Wildlife Park. We’ve had a year of changes within the park this year and new exhibits opening, including the refurbishment of the Reptile House having…
Okay, so I’ll admit, I wasn’t the most excited about Budgies before they joined our collection last year. However, since they arrived in April 2022, I’ve really grown to adore these bubbly little birds. I love listening to the male’s cheerful little vocalizations, they always seem to be chatting away to each other. More formally…