I would love to introduce you to some of our rowdiest residents at Wingham Wildlife Park. We have four goose species and you can usually hear them honking away on our large lake at the top of the Park. They are quite comical and will definitely be your best mate if you are standing by…
December is well known for being a month of celebration, with Christmas fast approaching (less than 2 weeks to go everyone!), festivities and high spirits are all around. However before Christmas arrives there’s another, admittedly lesser known, day of celebration I’d like to draw your attention to! December 14th 2019 will mark the 19th annual…
Hey everyone, in case you haven’t heard we’ve had a very busy and exciting couple of weeks here at Wingham Wildlife Park due to the arrival of our latest addition; Molly, our new Bornean Orangutan! She arrived at the park on 24th October and has come to us from Twycross zoo as part of a…
Hi explorers! I hope you enjoyed my first blog, but if you missed it, don’t worry because there’s a whole new one right here! My last visit to Wingham Wildlife Park was during the summer but recently I visited the park again and of course I enjoyed my visit just as much as the first…
Did you know that humans and animals don’t always agree on the meaning of a smile? Hi everyone, Nadine here dropping in with this week’s episode of the keeper blog! To be honest when I came to writing this one, I struggled to pick a topic to focus on, not because I couldn’t think of…
You may have been to Wingham recently to see the animals and their keepers going about their business. Perhaps you took a stroll along the top to see the pumas, jaguars and of course the lions. As you walk pass the lions you may stop briefly at the next enclosure and turn to the sign…
On the 18th September 2019, Pickle turns 7 years old. I still can’t quite believe it’s been 7 years since she was born, time certainly flies! Why is Pickle the wrong colour? As a female and being half a white cheeked gibbon, Pickle should be blonde in colour by now. Female White Cheeked Gibbons go…
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…
