Highland Wildlife Park Highland wildlife park news 2018

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So did anyone watch Britain's Polar Bear Cub tonight? Predictably the cub only appeared in the last 10 minutes or so, but despite that I thought it was an excellent programme showing the high and low points of captive breeding attempts. I also enjoyed the brief segment on how the way bears are kept in zoos has changed over the years with some archive footage of Brumas. Overall I thought it was really enjoyable - a good mix of the aww factor and a serious documentary, and I hope Highland Wildlife Park do really well off the back of it!

 

I watched too and thought it was fab. I really liked that it focused on the work and effort that goes into trying to make breeding successful rather than just the end product.

 

I bet they were all kicking themselves that they didn't put the CCTV camera back in the den this winter - it would have improved the show considerably.

 

Perhaps it also goes to prove that sometimes it is best just to let nature take its course.

 

Access to Viktorias enclosure remains closed to the public. But T Shirts with a picture of the bear cub are available to order !

Wonder when the enclosure will become accessible to the public again.

 

Look at John Hammond there

 

Not at all, I’m more thinking that it may be one for the lessons log!

 

I'm sure they originally said around the end of March, probably in time for Easter holiday

 

Deffo not going to be open for Easter, I'm sure of that. I rang up and asked last week as was planning a couple of days up there next week, and they advised that it was unlikely her enclosure would be open to the public next week.

 

Ah, thanks for that. I was mulling over taking a trip up there before starting a new job. Hopefully work will take me up that way before the summer holidays.

 

There's a contradiction there...

 

The mother and cub enclosure will be open for viewing as of tomorrow (21/3)

 

In pictures: Polar bear cub born in Highlands makes first appearance

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That’s good news !!!

I rang up last Wednesday and they told me it would unlikely be open this week

Saturday and Sunday in Scotland is back on the cards , who wants pictures ?

 

Do bears crap in the woods? (Sorry, couldn't resist!) Yes please!

I bet the park will be seriously busy over the Easter school holidays!

 

Too busy today and even people that pre-booked were turned away!

 

Oh wow, that is absolutely unreal! They must be thrilled!

 

Unlike the people who were turned away but had pre-booked -if true that's really poor customer service or, at the least, they completely under-estimated the popularity of a Polar Bear cub*. Either way, again if true, they need to make amends.

* to be fair they haven't much recent history to go on

 

Pretty sure they’ll have an arrangement in place to make up for it - something like a free return on another day - as you say, they’ll have known that it would up their visitor numbers for sure, but they probably didn’t realise by quite how much.