Highland Wildlife Park New arrivals at the HWP

My wife and I were at the park this week, and also at Edinburgh, were we were told that the Amur Leopard at the zoo will be joined by a female soon, and the pair will be travelling up to the HWP. The park is also due to get snow leopards in the future, an enclosure to be built behind the current lynx one.
 
There is a fantastic mix of sheer cliffs, pine forest and open moorland behind the lynx enclosures and chough aviary, which would also link to the enclosures for the markhor, bharal and goral, creating a mini Haimalayan biome exhibit.
Bwassa, any idea where the Amur leopard enclosure is going to be?
 
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I'm afraid not, Kiang. I would presume that it is next to the tiger enclosure, if it has been built already, but only tigers were mentioned on the map. We didn't go down to the tiger enclosure as there were a lot of workmen there, who were obviously very busy. We didn't know that the tigers were already on their way from Edinburgh as we were there!
 
HWP is turning into a nice gem of supra alpine, Himalayan highland and Sibero-Mongolian steppe/tundra habitat brimming with unusual fauna from these regions! Simply mouthwatering ....

I hope that Edinburgh Council wil now be released from its slumber sleep to realise that the Zoo in the city requires mega investment to make it go forward and become that scientific zoo gem up north ... it has always been .....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
 
This is all very interesting. I'm afraid that the idea of an actual drive to Kincraig in the snow does not really appeal to me, but I do like the concept of seeing SibTigs in the snow with snow leopards and Amur leopards too boot.

Alan
 
The Amur Leopard exhibit will be built the other side of the boardwalk at the tiger viewing area at the side of the exhibit.
 
The tiger exhibit looks great, hope its big! When is the leopard enclosure going to be built, does anyone know?

There seems to have been TONS of new stuff up there since i last went just over a year ago! I carn't wait to go again in 4 weeks!!
 
Turns out the park are also hoping for polar bears; on a recent visit, whilst talking to a keeper after the wolf talk he revealed hopes to create a large exhibit for the bears several years in the future viewable from both the road and the path.
 
Marwell Dalek said:
Turns out the park are also hoping for polar bears; on a recent visit, whilst talking to a keeper after the wolf talk he revealed hopes to create a large exhibit for the bears several years in the future viewable from both the road and the path.
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A drive through exhibit? That would be interesting, if not potentially lethal with the people who visit zoos nowadays lol.
Would be brilliant if this happened though :)
 
I drive through with Bears does sound weird, am sure someone here can tell me if there is any drive exhibits that hold bears (of any species)?

I would of thought they would be too dangerous to keep them this way? As with elephants and is why most safari parks have white rhino them being a bit more sedate then, blacks or Indian.
 
But Polar bears...?
Seems too dangerous to me. Maybe they'd do like WMSP does with its tigers and keep them behind hotwire?
 
ashley-h said:
But Polar bears...?
Seems too dangerous to me. Maybe they'd do like WMSP does with its tigers and keep them behind hotwire?
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Would be a shame to do it like so.

Maybe they will just have a ranger on guard at all times to stop the Polar bears getting too close to the cars.
 
planete sauvage have a drive through with black bears with thier own little mountain (how sweet)
 
There was a bear park at Loch Lomond in the 1970's - Cameron Loch Lomond Wildlife and Leisure Park with 2 drive through reserves for Asiatic and American black bears , European and Grizzly brown bears . I seem to remember something about them having polar bears also but - not surprisingly - having problems with them .
 
Ah yeah, I think I remember someone mentioning it on here.
Didn't someone get their arm mauled because they had their car window open?
 
Bele said:
There was a bear park at Loch Lomond in the 1970's - Cameron Loch Lomond Wildlife and Leisure Park with 2 drive through reserves for Asiatic and American black bears , European and Grizzly brown bears . I seem to remember something about them having polar bears also but - not surprisingly - having problems with them .
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Yep i believe they had a bit of a problem with the Polar Bears puncturing car tyres for fun!
 
I didn't say drive-through; I said drive by, like the wolf exhibit. Though having a DT exhibit would add to the excitement factor lol. :D
 
zoogiraffe said:
Yep i believe they had a bit of a problem with the Polar Bears puncturing car tyres for fun!
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Lol.
The painted hunting dogs in WMSP do that, although I'd imagine they have less impact than polar bears would...
 
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