Drive-through zoos

When Knowsley opened in the 1970's they soon reaslised that Tigers where no use as a drive through exhibit as they constantly punctured tyres, and since then have been kept fenced off from the road. Longleat manage to have a Tiger drive through successfully though.

 

From your comments I take it you have never visited the Loch Lomand area of Scotland in the United Kingdom,because if you had you would know its not the warmest place in the UK even at the height of summer!That said its also one of the most beautiful parts of Scotland as far as I'm concerned.

 

Never been to the UK. It's on my bucket list.

 

I recall an article from a few years ago about how one of the zoos in Ohio I think it was the Columbus Zoo, chilled the water down to 60 degrees F for the polar bears. The big sissies refused to go into it until it was warmed back up.

 

Lion Country Safari in Florida is drive through. The lions are kept in fenced in areas however rhinos and other critters run free. There are plenty of employees around to make sure you keep your windows up.

Lion Country Safari - a set on Flickr

The Wilds in Ohio is drive through but you have to take their bus.

The Wilds - a set on Flickr

My favorite places for drive through wildlife observation are Viera wetlands:

Viera Wetlands - a set on Flickr

Merritt Island:

Merritt Island Animals - a set on Flickr

Dinner Island Ranch WMA:

Dinner Island Ranch Wildlife Management Area - a set on Flickr

You won't see any really dangerous critters in any of those 3 locations but you will always see something interesting.

 

Have you guys seen this? Lion Country Safari (in Florida, AZA accredited) hosted the Google maps camera truck thing and now you can virtually drive through the park! Pretty cool.

Google Maps (link takes you directly to them...)

 

Hmmm... the link doesn't seem to work for me. It goes to a normal Google Map.

 

You can do that with Brookfield Zoo also.

 

Nano go to street view

 

Got it! Cheers!

This is good stuff!

 

Stopped at the entrance

Wouldn't you think a company with the money Google has would have paid for a drive around so we could have played spot the lion.

 

You swung a left, but you were supposed to continue straight. I made it into the enclosures.

 

Yeah, you can totally drive through the whole safari and be sure to use the pan feature to look all the way around to see the animals!

 

Well, I took a wrong turn, will have another go again sometime. I will check out a few British Safari parks and if you can have a go round them will post for you. Can't see any being like that though from the UK.

 

It's pretty much every safari parks in the world.