Longleat Safari & Adventure Park Longleat Safari Park News 2017

Does anyone know if the female moose from Whipsnade is definately coming to Longleat ?

 

Great British Autumn is going so well indeed even the owls did the demonstration

 

It'll soon be Christmas and the animals including Anne the Asian Elephant is doing really well

 

Poppy and Winston the Cheetah Cubs has got their first taste of Halloween this week. https://www.longleat.co.uk/news/halloween-does-the-trick-for-cheetah-cubs

 

Does anyone know if longest will be aquiring a male tiger any time soon

 

it'll soon be Christmas next month and for those who is going to the Festival of Light tomorrow which is Sunday. Have fun and enjoy the experience the lights https://www.longleat.co.uk/festival-of-light

 

Here's the beautiful Flamingo chicks https://www.longleat.co.uk/news/record-number-of-chilean-flamingo-chicks-in-the-pink-at-longleat

 

Can I ask those who went to the Festival of Light. How was it ?

 

Anyone need to cross the road ? here's a link about it https://www.longleat.co.uk/news/safari-park-seeks-zebra-crossing-operative

 

There was a moose in an enclosure next to the lemur walkthrough yesterday / viewed from road in african section so guessing this would be the one from Whipsnade?

 

If anyone who is going to Longleat today it's very snowy and guess you need to look on Facebook for that

 

Tune in to Channel 4 tonight at 8pm Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick performs one of his most tricky operations on orphan penguin

 

Quick visit from today, notes:

• Many species inside, presumably due to the weather
• Moose wasn't out, but the enclosure seems nice enough. Adds something big to that part of the park, even if it's not signed yet
• FANTASTIC to see the Desertas island wolf spiders (Hogna ingens) bred by Bristol given such a prominent place in the central area, hope they do well with them
• Aardvarks look pretty content in their enclose, sleeping soundly is always a good thing!

 

So where is the moose paddock located?

 

It shares a fence with the top part of the lemur walkthrough, then runs down the hill toward part of the Africa drive through, so you get two views of it.

Not sure how long they've been there but I saw two black wildebeest in the Africa Safari as well, haven't seen them being mentioned.

 

The wildebeest were in the monkey drivethrough for ages, but have recently been moved into the Africa Safari. I think there are still some blackbuck in the monkey drivethrough.

 

Black Wildebeest- or Blue? If Black, anyone know where they came from?

 

Thanks for the info, I've never been through there, shame to have missed them previously.

@Pertinax looking around the internet I can't see anything saying they have black, I must be mistaken. I thought I saw a white tail, but I didn't take a photograph so I've got no way of checking. We didn't go through the Safari this time, queues were insane, which is doubly irritating.
Sorry everyone, best to ignore this!

 

The only Black Wildebeest in UK are at Newquay and the Lakeland Wildlife Park(forget name) hence my query.

 

Happy Christmas to all