Enclosure Redesign

Our parks team are currently busy landscaping one of our enclosures ready for the arrival of some Bennett's wallabies.

This was our first ever tiger enclosure, and it has served the zoo very well over the past thirty years. However, it was a little isolated from the rest of the big cats and there wasn't any room for expansion. The team therefore decided to house all our tigers in The Tiger Sanctuary and Big Cat Territory areas of the zoo, leaving this enclosure free.

We though that wallabies would be a great addition to this area of the zoo. A walk-though area will mean that people can enter the enclosure and meet the animals.


Benches have already been installed, and now the parks team are busy laying turf. We're torn on whether it looks like it should house hobbits or tellytubbies! We hope to welcome the wallabies in the next two weeks.

A lot's been happening since the last update.

25th July 2011

With the summer season in full swing, the zoo is at it's peak and a great place to see the cats out enjoying the Sun. Unfortunately this can sap a keeper's energy is quite well by the end of the day and so apologies for the lack of recent blog entries! A lot has been happening at the zoo, and a lot to write about and so to give a brief summary we have had:

- The moving of Chiquita the jaguar to her new enclosure
- A tiger health check up
- Renovation and maintenance of the water features in Ranthambore and Kahna enclosure which are now complete and being used by the tiger.
- Renovating Chandru's old enclosure (he moved to a new one earlier this year) to create a habitat for wallabies
- Watching the baby black lemur (which were yet to name!) grow up and bounce around over mum Adala and dad Mitsio (who look like they would do anything for 5 minutes peace sometimes.)
- Bonding with a new red fox colony at the zoo.

To make up for a lack of images, here's a shot of Aysha running through the water feature in Ranthambore from a couple of days ago, that sums up the summer feeling at the zoo in my eyes: