Last week saw the celebration of International Zookeepers Week and what a celebration to be had! Let’s discuss some routes into zookeeping and I’ll treat you to my journey becoming a keeper. Often scoring high in the “dream job” category, sits the Zookeeper. I’m told by strangers how lucky I am and how I have…
Emergency recall is one behaviour which I’ve been so excited to start. It is a challenging behaviour but so rewarding to see when it begins to take shape. What is an emergency recall? An emergency recall is much stricter than the normal recall. It is necessary that we do this for the animals to get…
If you’ve been to the park recently, you may have noticed that our lemur walk through enclosure has undergone a major renovation! A new route through the enclosure has been made and more exciting trees, branches and climbing equipment installed. It opened this week and we have some wonderful new residents waiting to greet you!…
On the 29th of May 2024, I went and visited Wingham Wildlife Park for the last time as a Junior Journalist. As it was half-term there were many fun activities to do, such as arts and crafts and learning about teeth and claws of animals (past and present) on the touch tables. It was a…
Hi, it’s Celia again and I’m here with my last blog for Wingham Wildlife Park! Instead of focusing on two areas of the park like I usually do, I wanted to simply enjoy all the animals and use my last time as Junior Reporter, making my way round to see and interact with as many…
Hi everyone, my name is Georgia, I am the vet for Wingham Wildlife Park. As it is World Veterinary Day on Saturday 27th April, we thought you might like an insight into what I get up to as the onsite vet for the collection! My role as a vet in a zoological collection varies hugely…
As some of you may already know, this will be my last blog as Head Keeper at Wingham Wildlife Park as I prepare to move onto a new career path as a small business owner. I’ll be running a comic book shop in Hythe, Kent which will be opening at the start of May. I…
Senior Primate Keeper, Holly For this blog I thought I would give you an insight into one of my favourite aspects of my job… DIY projects. As much as there is a part of me that loves picking up poo (you kind of have to, to be a zookeeper); training, enriching and building different things…
This blog will be celebrating ‘Fun At Work Day’ and dedicated to our keepers with some photos of them doing some of the fun and the not-so fun parts of the job! I wanted to give the keepers a much-needed giggle for the end of January by catching their best side at work. *Some of…
Senior Keeper, Holly Hi everyone, I’m Holly, the Senior Primate Keeper here at Wingham Wildlife Park. For my first blog I could have dedicated to all of the primates that everyone loves to talk about here at Wingham Wildlife Park. However, I chose instead to write this one about the “other” monkeys. The monkeys that…
