Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens Cotswold Wildlife Park News 2012

Latest CWP visit

Our third visit of the year - managed to get a glimpse of a beautiful Clouded Leopard who was chilling out in the sun in an off-show enclosure behind the Amur Leopard.
The three Wolverine cubs were out playing with mum and are looking very mischevious exploring their enclosure - if you want to see them, get to them as early as you can - it seems they are out early and late on in the day.
In the Madagascar walk-through we were very lucky to see the new Collared Lemur twins (born a few hours before we arrived!!!) and the baby Ring-Tailed Lemur who was born on 26th March. The Red-Bellied Lemur was due to give birth any time too
There was a third Greater Bamboo Lemur in the enclosure in the Walled Garden.
There was also a baby Bactrian Camel, born 28th March

 

Taken from thier facebook page and from you tube a short clip of the Wolverine Cubs hope nobody as already put clip on here

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Couldn't agree more Dave, well done to all at CWP on a fantastic achievement.

 

On that note, think it deserves to be mentioned that three Wolverine youngsters have been giving names;

"Ensin" meaning "First"
"Nalka" meaning "Hungry"
"Niemi" meaning "Daughter"

All smashing names in my opinion

 

I hope they like rain, i'm supposed to be going to see the tomorrow.

 

I'm sure you'll see them in the rain, they certainly made my Easter Sunday special. Was fantastic to see them in the national press this week and congratulations to the keepers at CWP for such an achievement.

In addition to my post earlier about the new additions, there is also a baby Colobus Monkey that was born on 31st March.
There should be an addition to the Red-Bellied Lemur family by now too...

 

Visited today in torrential rain, but i'm really glad i went as we virtually had the park to ourselves, got to see the Wolverine kitts/cubs and virtually every other animal Only the sloth and Anteater were no shows. Insect house is still closed for refurbishment. I really can't fault this place, there is nothing that i would consider a negative, it's beautiful, spotless, a great collection of animals, good enclosures, a very reasonable admission fee, plenty of toilets and they are not out to get every penny out of you at every turn. Top Marks from me

 

Many Zoochatters agree with those comments. It consistently comes out on top as the UK collection about which there is hardly ever critisism of any kind.

 

Three wolverine cubs have been born at Cotswold Wildlife Park in the first ever successful attempt to breed the species in captivity in the UK.

BBC News - First UK wolverine cubs born at Cotswold Wildlife Park

 

Whipsnade kept wolverines many years ago and I have a very hazy memory that they may have bred them (1950/60s?). The Bartlett Society first breeding in UK pages doesn't list wolverine however. Can anyone confirm or deny this one way or the other please?

 

I've done a quick bit of researching & cannot find anything relating to Wolverines breeding at Whipsnade.
It was great seeing the young Wolverines at the park though, its great news, hopefully many more births over the years!

 

I have checked the Whipsnade breeding records in every ZSL Annual Report during the 1960s; there is no record of wolverine births for the years 1960 – 1969 inclusive.

Regrettably I don’t have the complete set of ZSL Annual Reports for the 1950s; I am missing those for the years 1950 and 1958. However, for the other eight years in that decade, I can confirm that there is no record of Wolverine births at Whipsnade.

(NB In the extremely unlikely event that anybody has unwanted copies of the ZSL Annual Reports for 1950 or 1958, I would willingly purchase them.)

 

I'm sure you are right, I had no more than a vague feeling, I'm probably getting mixed up with another species

 

Ostrich Subspecies

I visited CWP earlier this year, and was very impressed, especially with the bird collection, but was a little confused by the guidebook when it came to the ostrich. The book mentioned the Masai subspecies, but the zoo's signage didn't, so I'm not sure if they just have a generic ostrich, or a subspecies. Zootierliste suggests generic, but I didn't find this site particularly accurate when it came to UK collections, especially CWP. Can anyone confirm/deny what ostrich CWP have? Thanks.

 

Cotswold used to have Masai Ostrich,but they currently have generic Ostrich,its a case of the guidebook not moving with the times.As for zootierlist no its not as accurate for the UK but its getting there!

 

Thanks for that clarification zoogiraffe.

 

They have red panda babies!!!!

 

Unfortunatly the parks group of batchelor Giraffe is now down from four to three individuals. Icarus, one of the Rothschild males they recieved from Woburn in 2011 died in May following complications from an injured hoof.

Shame that

 

I was deeply upset when I found out about Icarus last week. I witnessed his birth at Woburn and he became my favourite. A sad loss