Hello everybody, it’s me, Ava! I’m back with more exciting stories and fun facts to share! How’d you like my painting of a capybara? Terrible right! Don’t worry, I’ll stick to journalism from now on! This is my third visit as a young reporter for Wingham Wildlife Park, and in this article I’m going to…
Now that it is officially February at Wingham Wildlife Park, we can sense a lot of love in the air. You might all be busy thinking about what flowers to buy or picking out the best outfit and so are many animal species around the world. Except sometimes it’s a little wilder! Being a mammal…
This week’s blog comes from me, Jess B, Deputy Head of Primates. After my maternity leave, I couldn’t wait to return to all the wonderful animals and my team. My blog is about my trip to Sumatra, Indonesia in 2018, in search of Sumatran orangutans. Home Sweet Home Now, we are home to our two…
Wow already a month into 2025, where does the time go? I hope everyone is keeping well and still sticking to their new years resolutions. For my blog this week I thought I’d share with you my recent holiday to India. It is a place in the world that has always appealed to me, especially…
I think it is fair to say, if you asked the primate team how 2024 has been, we would all agree it has been a rollercoaster of a year! There has been so much going on this year so I thought I would use the last primate blog of the year to re-cap some of…
Seasons greetings to you all and I hope you are all ready and prepared for the big day. As this is my last blog for 2024, I’ve decided to have a look back at some of this year’s highlights and changes that have happened over the past 12 months, here at Wingham Wildlife Park. January…
I think it’s safe to say that if you visit a zoo, you aren’t really gonna be in for a quiet day. Whether it’s the lion roaring, the wolves howling, the gibbons singing or the chimps happy hooting, the park is filled with an abundance of noise. But what do they mean? What are they…
My blog this week is focusing on lemurs in celebration of World Lemur Day which is held on the last Friday in October every year. This year, it falls on the 25th. All lemur species are endemic to Madagascar and there are over 110 species ranging in size from the 30-gram Berthe’s mouse lemur to…
On September 1st, we celebrated a very special day for the primate team… International Primate Day! This is an annual event organised since 2005 by the British-based Animal Defenders International (ADI) and if there is one thing the primate team know how to do… it’s to throw a celebration! So for this blog, I decided…
Introduction Hi to all of you that follow Wingham Wildlife Park, quick intro, my name is Tristan Moore, and I am the winner of the under 16 journalist competition, and this is my first blog going forward which I hope you love reading as much as I will writing and sharing with you all! I…
