Heythrop Zoo Heythrop open day reivew

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Me and Griggs are going to Heythrop, i shall post a reivew, please do not hesitate to ask any quistions
 
Well all will say is the big cat experience is a real show stopper the rest of its pretty good as well.
 
The Best Day ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The zoo was great!!!!! The pygmy hippo enclosure was spacios, and had a large pool. the wolves and hyenas had spacious rocky enclosures. the mandrills had huge climming structures. The tigers had a heavily planted spacious enclosure. the lions had a few trees and lots off grass. the leopard and panther enclosures had huge rocks, trees dens grass and thick buches. the kangaroo/walliby exhibit was a large, grassy paddok and the african bird enclosure was a nice wetland, style exhibit. The bear exhibit, which contained a Asiatic black bear and englands only polar bear, Zara, 23 years old, has rocky cliffs, a water fall and a deep, large saltwater pool. But the highlight of the day was the big cat encounter.

An ablsalotly fab, amazing, astonoshing day out!!!!!:D:):cool:
 
Cat-Man said:
The zoo was great!!!!! The pygmy hippo enclosure was spacios, and had a large pool. the wolves and hyenas had spacious rocky enclosures. the mandrills had huge climming structures. The tigers had a heavily planted spacious enclosure. the lions had a few trees and lots off grass. the leopard and panther enclosures had huge rocks, trees dens grass and thick buches. the kangaroo/walliby exhibit was a large, grassy paddok and the african bird enclosure was a nice wetland, style exhibit. The bear exhibit, which contained a Asiatic black bear and englands only polar bear, Zara, 23 years old, has rocky cliffs, a water fall and a deep, large saltwater pool. But the highlight of the day was the big cat encounter.

An ablsalotly fab, amazing, astonoshing day out!!!!!:D:):cool:
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I take it you had never visited your home zoo before then????You forgot to mention the large paddock for the Giraffes,Addax and Blackbuck and the large grass paddocks for the Arabian Camels,Javan Banteng and the one containing Chapmans and Grants Zebra.
 
Thanks zg, off on a tangent here are they pure Javan banteng or a more typical European zoo mongrel?
 
are you sure the bantengs were 1.1 to me it looked more like 0.2 or are the animals from the Borneo subspecies (then also the bull has brown skin instead of black).
 
zoogiraffe said:
Well all will say is the big cat experience is a real show stopper the rest of its pretty good as well.
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For those of us that were unable to attend the open day, can anyone give us more details of the big cat experience please....
 
The big cat experience was amazing, firstly Jimmy entered the cage which had been built infront of us in about ten mins, and then entered 4 tigers 2 lioness, 1 lion, and a leopard. It was a fairly impressive sight.
 
It stated in the information sent with tickets that all photographs taken were to be for private use only and not posted on the internet!
 
Not realy just that they have to be careful because of the zoo antis and the anti circus brigade as they have had problems in the past with them,by stopping us posting photos on here just means that they cannot be mis-used by these idiots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
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