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Howletts Wild Animal Park Howletts Wild Animal Park 2022
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Alwaysevergreen
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Had a lovely day at Howletts the other day. My first visit and thoroughly enjoyed it.
A few notes/questions:
- They’re really promoting the elephant rewinding now. It appears all the elephants are in crate training including, apparently, Coco the bull. There was a keeper trying to coax him inside apparently for this when I was there.
- Boris Johnson was at the park feeding the elephants with his son alongside Aspinall. Then saw his security team and him leaving in a convoy of blacked out range rovers from the manor. Suspect his wife was probably over there having a meeting.
- What’s the status of the wolves at the park? They state they house both European Grey wolves and Iberian wolves. Where exactly are each of these held? There were wolves, signposted as European grey wolves, at the top right corner of the park after walking through the woodland bit with all the primates. But where it states they hold Iberian wolves on their map, there were African wild dogs. So are the Iberian Wolves no longer there? Or are the Iberian Wolves the same as the European Grey Wolves and just not labelled to subspecies status? Are the two subspecies housed together?
- It seems it’s not noted here but there was a rather young De Brazza monkey clinging to its mother still. It did also climb off her so not too young but likely a recent birth.
Lastly, does the park still hold margay? I didn’t see any sign of one but the website lists them as being held.
A few notes/questions:
- They’re really promoting the elephant rewinding now. It appears all the elephants are in crate training including, apparently, Coco the bull. There was a keeper trying to coax him inside apparently for this when I was there.
- Boris Johnson was at the park feeding the elephants with his son alongside Aspinall. Then saw his security team and him leaving in a convoy of blacked out range rovers from the manor. Suspect his wife was probably over there having a meeting.
- What’s the status of the wolves at the park? They state they house both European Grey wolves and Iberian wolves. Where exactly are each of these held? There were wolves, signposted as European grey wolves, at the top right corner of the park after walking through the woodland bit with all the primates. But where it states they hold Iberian wolves on their map, there were African wild dogs. So are the Iberian Wolves no longer there? Or are the Iberian Wolves the same as the European Grey Wolves and just not labelled to subspecies status? Are the two subspecies housed together?
- It seems it’s not noted here but there was a rather young De Brazza monkey clinging to its mother still. It did also climb off her so not too young but likely a recent birth.
Lastly, does the park still hold margay? I didn’t see any sign of one but the website lists them as being held.
Alwaysevergreen
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Iberian Wolves used to be where the African Wild Dog are now.
margay should be opposite the cafe. There used to be three Margay, although not always easy to see.
margay should be opposite the cafe. There used to be three Margay, although not always easy to see.
Ah thanks guys. Must’ve missed the margay then! Will have to look next time. Saw squirrel monkeys in that area but no margay!
There proper tucked away in a corner not on the map or anything
but usually I say when you walk up through woodlands heading up towards the pavilion and play park on the left there’s a post with a map on n behind that if you look behind that map there’s benches and back left corner the margay enclosure
but usually I say when you walk up through woodlands heading up towards the pavilion and play park on the left there’s a post with a map on n behind that if you look behind that map there’s benches and back left corner the margay enclosure
Alwaysevergreen
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I thought Salome was at Port Lympne ?
Salome passed away on 12/08/21.
Thank you. So only Damara and Sammy are there at Howletts now?
Both are at Howletts, along with 6 year old cow Rukuru from PL. She transferred to Howletts a couple of months ago.
A rescue from dire confitions, I presume?
Though that said, this is some nice news.