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Dedicated rangers needed patience, invention and tasty treats to get the measure of all creatures great and small at Yorkshire Wildlife Park‘s annual animal audit. Each of the hundreds of animals, from tiny meerkats to Eastern black rhinos and giraffes, has to be counted and have their vital statistics recorded as part of a national … Read more
Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster is celebrating the birth of one of the world’s smallest antelopes. The tiny Kirk’s dik-dik calf, named Acorn, will soon be winning the hearts of visitors exploring the reserve under the watchful care of parents Davos and Crissy (pictured below). The species with long limbs and extraordinarily big eyes is … Read more
A critically endangered species of monkey has been born at Yorkshire Wildlife Park, near Doncaster. The birth of the baby Roloway monkey is a first the UK, and a major triumph for the European breeding programme of the rare species. The new arrival is one of only three babies to be born in zoos around … Read more
A colony of sea lions famous for appearing in a television documentary about life at two Zoological Society of London zoos will be heading to a new home in Yorkshire later this year. The six sea lions – male Dominic, 13, and females, Lara, 12, and Bailey,13, and two-year-old youngsters, Hanno, Oakley and Maui – … Read more
Staff at Yorkshire Wildlife Park in Doncaster have been celebrating behind closed doors following the birth of two Bactrian camel calves during lockdown. The youngsters were born only days apart, with the first calf, Marvin, arriving on the 10th of April to parents Elizabeth and Baxter, with second calf, Merlin, born to mum Darcey – … Read more
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