Hamerton Zoo Park Hamerton Zoo News 2025

MikeG said:
Just to point out, Hamerton's wombats are the Australian mainland subspecies, not Tassies.
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OK, point taken! I just assumed ... (my bad ...).

I seem to remember though that the majority of European wombats are now from the Tasmanian subspecies.... (hence my incorrect assumption). The mainland subspecies is now held by Hamerton, Pairi Daizi and Praha Zoos. What is confusing that Duisburg, PD and Praha Zoos reportedly have both. The Tasmanian subspecies is held at some 7-10 collections within Europe and seems to now be the favored option.
 
Lafone said:
There were two cheetahs in the front enclosure near the foxes, both making a lot of noise against their partition and running about / hunkering together. Both looked younger so not sure if the remaining cubs have been seperated from mother Jetts after the other two moved on.
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There are only two of Jetts' cubs now at Hamerton, in the main enclosure it is now Jetts and her female cub Zuri, the male (Caesar has been split from them now for the obvious reasons).
See this post for details
Hamerton Zoo Park on Instagram: "We've had quite a busy few weeks at the zoo with recent animal moves. We've said a sad goodbye to two of Cheetah Jett's cubs, Koba & Zeta who have moved on to a new home but we welcomed three new Cheetah girls. Please welcome Meeka, Kali & Imara to the zoo family! These girls are currently off show and settling in. We've also said a sad goodbye to two of our Brown Hyena cubs Cruella & Harley who left to a new home at Zoo Na Hrádečku .
 
migdog said:
Saw quite a few pairs of unsigned bird species that I don't think have been mentioned: Sumatran laughing-thrush (heard and saw silhouette inside the house), red-winged starling, white-crowned robin-chat, a type of glossy starling (couldn't quite figure out which species) and a hypocolius.
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On February 8th, the zoo announced they acquired the aforementioned white-crested laughing thrushes (originally said Sumatran but was corrected), as well as lesser blue-eared starlings, brahminy starlings, and purple starlings which are now on display.

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Smaggledagle said:
On February 8th, the zoo announced they acquired the aforementioned white-crested laughing thrushes (originally said Sumatran but was corrected), as well as lesser blue-eared starlings, brahminy starlings, and purple starlings which are now on display.

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As well as the arrivals being noted in this thread already, photos of all the signs for the new birds (including purple glossy starling) are in the gallery.
 
We've been yesterday. Very sunny busy day.
I've not been around the zoo community much for the past 5 months, so not sure if I missed something...
We saw the Dik-Dik calf.

My last visit was July, just before my pass ran out.
We got a day ticket yesterday so made sure we were there from opening till closing.
There's lots of Civets at the beginning.
A male on his own, and next to it 3 more. Looked like 2 little ones with a mother?

Quite a few new birds, we managed to spot them all.
The 3 latest cheetah cubs were running around and playing, very fun to watch.

Did see the baby wombat, it was outside for a few minutes with it's mom.
It's very adorable!
The golden possums had been fed and 2 were eating outside so got very good views of them. Could also see 2 of them in the back enclosures.

One of the bat earned foxes was chilling in the sun.
It was a first time seeing one outside, the closest we got last year was one sticking it's head out the door.
Most lynx were running and laying about visibly which was nice to see.

And we finally saw some binturong in their newest enclosure, looked like 3 youngsters.

The Oncilla was walking in and out, with the rusty spotted cat behind it also showing itself once in a while.
I take it the other 2 rusty's have left? Since there are now slender mongoose.
Which we saw one off, they are slender indeed, and super fast! But cute to see.

White Tiger had access to the big enclosure, I believe his had a sign that said maintenance.
2 bears were out, 1 was in the water playing with a piece of fire hose.
And all the way in the back we could see one cheetah chilling and the brown hyena walking around.

All in all, succesful day of seeing new animals and ones we barely saw before.
Only one after 30 visits we haven't seen is the brush tailed possum, but I've also given up all hope to ever see it.

They're also doing building works where the gift shop was/cafeteria is.
 
Hi everyone

I am a Canadian planning on a UK roadtrip for the summer of 2026, with the goal of visiting as many UK zoos as I can, since your zoological collections have many species that are not present in Canadian Collections, and Hamerton Zoo Park is one of the places I am considering going. I have a few questions and I was wondering if anyone can answer... The species gallery on their website seems to include a lot of animals no longer present.

1. Does the Zoo still have Tayra?
2. Does the Zoo still have Rusty Spotted Cats?
3. Does the Zoo still have Hyrax?

Thanks in advance! My only other questions are which species are the ones most likely to not be seen during a visit? And any tips and tricks for the zoo would be appreciated! Thanks!
 
LTigert said:
Hi everyone

I am a Canadian planning on a UK roadtrip for the summer of 2026, with the goal of visiting as many UK zoos as I can, since your zoological collections have many species that are not present in Canadian Collections, and Hamerton Zoo Park is one of the places I am considering going. I have a few questions and I was wondering if anyone can answer... The species gallery on their website seems to include a lot of animals no longer present.

1. Does the Zoo still have Tayra?
2. Does the Zoo still have Rusty Spotted Cats?
3. Does the Zoo still have Hyrax?

Thanks in advance! My only other questions are which species are the ones most likely to not be seen during a visit? And any tips and tricks for the zoo would be appreciated! Thanks!
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I might not be the most helpful but luckily the regulars will probably pop in within no time. I did as an international visitor as well though and wish you luck! It's a very interesting facility.

I visited last year near this time, a bit closer to April, and at the time tayra and hyrax were still present. I imagine some of the regulars will be able to answer that better in no-time. My best recommendation is a small one, which is wear good shoes. There's a couple exhibits that are not close to the path, and it's bigger than it looks while you're there.
 
LTigert said:
Hi everyone

I am a Canadian planning on a UK roadtrip for the summer of 2026, with the goal of visiting as many UK zoos as I can, since your zoological collections have many species that are not present in Canadian Collections, and Hamerton Zoo Park is one of the places I am considering going. I have a few questions and I was wondering if anyone can answer... The species gallery on their website seems to include a lot of animals no longer present.

1. Does the Zoo still have Tayra?
2. Does the Zoo still have Rusty Spotted Cats?
3. Does the Zoo still have Hyrax?

Thanks in advance! My only other questions are which species are the ones most likely to not be seen during a visit? And any tips and tricks for the zoo would be appreciated! Thanks!
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It’s well worth a visit.

The zoo has Tayra and they are indeed to be found quite near the Rusty Spotted cat. The Hyrax share with one of the three groups of ring tailed lemurs.

In terms of harder to see animals I’d say the various possums though lots of people have had more luck than me and I have seen them, but not regularly! The wombats can be quite hit and miss. You can see some of both in their dens though. The Canadian lynx used to be hard to see but now the three cubs returned from south lakes zoo they are very showy but certainly won’t be a novelty to you as a visitor!

Most of the other animals will be around if you go around a few times and it benefits from a few loops. In terms of tips I’d say try the harder to find animals near opening and then again near closing as they often pop out for food.
 
Lafone said:
It’s well worth a visit.

The zoo has Tayra and they are indeed to be found quite near the Rusty Spotted cat. The Hyrax share with one of the three groups of ring tailed lemurs.

In terms of harder to see animals I’d say the various possums though lots of people have had more luck than me and I have seen them, but not regularly! The wombats can be quite hit and miss. You can see some of both in their dens though. The Canadian lynx used to be hard to see but now the three cubs returned from south lakes zoo they are very showy but certainly won’t be a novelty to you as a visitor!

Most of the other animals will be around if you go around a few times and it benefits from a few loops. In terms of tips I’d say try the harder to find animals near opening and then again near closing as they often pop out for food.
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Just to agree with the above, it is a zoo that rewards looping round rather than waiting at individual exhibits. If you are keen on the rusty spotted cats, oncilla, and ring-tailed possum, they have been early morning and then not again sightings for me, it would be worth an early train from town, aiming for opening.
 
I would say don't be shy to ask keepers for advice. When I visited a couple years back they were more then happy to help me with tips and timings to spot all animals. Like they even told me I'm on my way to feed the Ring-tailed possum, so I got to see it.
 
Lafone said:
It’s well worth a visit.

The zoo has Tayra and they are indeed to be found quite near the Rusty Spotted cat. The Hyrax share with one of the three groups of ring tailed lemurs.

In terms of harder to see animals I’d say the various possums though lots of people have had more luck than me and I have seen them, but not regularly! The wombats can be quite hit and miss. You can see some of both in their dens though. The Canadian lynx used to be hard to see but now the three cubs returned from south lakes zoo they are very showy but certainly won’t be a novelty to you as a visitor!

Most of the other animals will be around if you go around a few times and it benefits from a few loops. In terms of tips I’d say try the harder to find animals near opening and then again near closing as they often pop out for food.
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On my last visit a few weeks ago, the Slender mongoose were in the previous rusty spotted cat enclosure, I didn't see them signed anywhere else . I have only seen one hyrax on my last 5 or 6 (usually monthly visits)
 
pipaluk said:
On my last visit a few weeks ago, the Slender mongoose were in the previous rusty spotted cat enclosure, I didn't see them signed anywhere else . I have only seen one hyrax on my last 5 or 6 (usually monthly visits)
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Yeah, there used to be 2 Rusty Spotted Cats in that enclosure, but it's now Slender Mongoose (we saw at least 1 of them last week).
There is still a Rusty Spotted Cat in the enclosure that is joint with the Oncilla enclosure.
I also only noticed 1 Hyrax last week.
 
Moorhunhe said:
Just announced on Facebook they have Southern Aardwolfs again!

Next to the parrot aviary.
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Yes, went yesterday and there were signs up saying new arrivals and the windows were fenced off so didn't see anything. The sun made it difficult to look in even though we went past a few times. Saw almost everything else though, apart from the ringtail and skunk (but we did see them both last time as the keeper was in with them).
 
Should be visiting Hamerton later this week for the first time in several years, so I have a couple of questions, I was hoping could be answered.
1. Any viewing advice/good times for the echidnas, howler monkeys and oncillas?
2. What animals are in the area marked small cats on the map?
3. Are the new aardwolf on display yet and if so where in the zoo are they?
4. Does the zoo still hold jaguarundi?
Many thanks for any help given.
 
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