Yorkshire Wildlife Park Yorkshire Wildlife Park News 2020

A building site currently. Still a while to go before the exhibit is anywhere close to ready

 

Still, exciting times ahead, judging by what fabulous habitats the current guests at the YWP have

 

As someone who knows Whipsnade well, the enclosure is definitely not a shocker. That being said, it is time they moved. I'll really miss them, that enclosure at Whipsnade means a lot to me but hopefully I'll be able to visit YWP next year and 'catch up' with the Sea Lions again

 

Let’s agree to disagree; for me it was a shocker, but it’s gone now so perhaps we all move on.

I’m not here to argue with anyone.....

Looking forward to seeing their new habitat....

 

Me too, as I think the whipsnade habitat was ok for like 3 adults but now their are 6 sea lions it is definitely too small, As also all 3 juveniles are males they will also have to move on to other collections within a year or 2 as won’t they want to fight with their dad?. As they moved the first born male pup born Oscar after just a year! So this is what I was expecting at whipsnade originally and their keeper last year said she couldn’t find a suitable home for the two eldest male pups to move too that’s why they stayed put!

 

That’s really interesting information, thank you so much for this

My Dad lives about 1/2 hr from Doncaster, so will be paying a visit before Xmas I hope....

Although I doubt from earlier posts it will be finished by then...

I actually really liked the London Zoo Sealion habitat, but that might have been my very young rose tinted glasses....

The Zoo has never seemed the same without that iconic bark of the magnificent male reverberating through the whole Zoo....

Magical times for me as a nipper

 

Agreed: I think a sea lion's bark is one of the most evocative of all zoo noises.

 

Actually the old sealion enclosure at London was pretty good for its age, with the landscaped rocky islets and grassy rock margins and the cliff. And you aren't the first to comment on here about the sound of the bull sealion reverbating around the zoo being one of London's classic zoo sounds of a bygone era.

 

Do you think ywp will get snow leopards for the himalayan pass. A new species will be comming to the himalayan pass because there are climbing structures in the smooth coated otter enclosure. Just behind the Himalayan pass and behind the geldada enclosure they are going to be building an asian forest exhibit in the future I think ywp will get sun bears and greater one horned rhino. (Sorry for replying to someone's comment that is irrelevant to my topic but I dosent let me post a chat.

 

The climbing structures on the SCO will likely be for the Binturong

 

I was thinking that but they aren't from the Himalayas and they would make more sense in the future asian forest with sun bears.

 

Both species are found through much the same range with the SCO's peaking further up into India

 

Yorkshire Wildlife Park have put up a news article on their website about the recent birth of the Roloway monkey. While its sex is currently unknown, it is (according to the International Zoo Database) the first of its kind to ever be born in the UK and one of only three born in zoos worldwide this year.

More information can be found in the link below:
Yorkshire Wildlife Park celebrates UK's first rare Roloway Monkey birth - Yorkshire Wildlife Park

 

I mean, as far as zoo births go, this must be one of the most exciting in the UK, perhaps Europe, this year. A species with fewer than 250 animals, and a first for the UK

 

Hamish the Polar bear has arrived from Highland Wildlife Park:

First polar bear born in UK in 25 years moved from Scotland to Yorkshire

 

With the arrival of Hamish, two of the current polar bears, Nissan and Pixel have left the collection to go to France.

 

So how many does that leave at YWP?

 

3.0.0, Hamish, Rasputin and Nobby.

 

I thought rasputin had moved on recently or at least was ear marked for a move to Estonia

 

Someone was saying he's moving on the 18th but I don't know on how good an authority they have this information!