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***Sim*** · **Wellington Zoo Visitors Face to Face with the Lions** 26-03-2005

Media release from Wellington Zoo

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Media Release

24 March 2005

Wellington Zoo Visitors Face to Face with the Lions

Wellington Zoo is again bringing their visitors remarkably close to these animals with the reintroduction of the Lion cave viewing window, open from Easter this year. Visitors will feel like they are in the enclosure with the Lions as they make eye contact with these animals through the viewing glass.

After two months of sourcing building supplies and construction, the viewing glass provides a 30 millimetre distance between the Lions and Zoo visitors, making the experience extremely close but safe.

Following the installation of the new glass, Property Team Leader, Shane Whittaker describes his experience with the Lions as â€œQuite daunting. They followed me to the window, then pouncedâ€.

Realising Wellington Zooâ€™s vision to bring animals and people closer together, the viewing cave is one of many enhanced or new enclosures.

Wellington Zoo Lion Keeper, Paul Horton says â€œVisitors can have an up close and personal moment with an African Lion through the window. They [the Lions] are reacting really well to itâ€. If you really want to experience Lion breath, you can book a Big Cat Encounter which really is the ultimate experience.

Big Cat Encounters have been touted as a success by numerous visitors with Encounters available from Monday to Friday. They can be booked by calling Zoo Events on 389 3692.

Nigel · **Wellington Zoo Lion enclosure** 04-04-2005

dont get too excited -- the main reason that the lions have a relatively new enclosure was because their previous one was an early 1900s heavy grille bar cage that was totally unsuitable . Most of the time the lions are sunbathing on top of the rocky outcrop , most of it is out of view from the window in the "cave " You get a better view , albeit further away , from the upper viewing enclosure .

Zoo_Boy · 05-11-2007

save starting another post, can anyone explain the history of the lions at auckland, and where there cubs went, from about 01/02

i know 3 females went to wellington, and 3 went to oz. the ones at oz, 1 stayed at taronga to breed, with jambo, who was born at the zoo in 99, and his sisters went to western plains, but what happened to the otehr 2 females from auckland?

jay · 05-11-2007

Zoo Boy, I'm not quite positive but I think that the two females at Adelaide are Auckland born females.

Zoo_Boy · 05-11-2007

so they went to tyhere via taronga. kool, thnx

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