Michaelreyno
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Hey there, new to the site, must say it's pretty awsome. Well, visited West Midlands Safari Park Monday and had a great time. Been there about 6 times now, usually go every year whilst on family visits. Was impressed with their new souvenir books but noticed the price of entry had gone up from what i remember last year. All worth it though.
Was a shame that the giraffe weren't allowed out, the roads were wet so i assumed it was due to fear of one falling and injuring themselves that they had been kept in their holding pens. They have a healthy, large herd of Eland, and noticed a very small young eland curled up near a feeder. Four rhino were on display, and the gnu herd seemed to have grown in numbers from my last visit.
Moving on a little through the white wallabies and reindeer to the wolves. Didn't really stop much to view the wolves, all of which were sleeping in the bottom corner of their exhibit.
They still have a very large herd of blackbuck, and there have been two new aditions to the asian buffalo herd. Also spotted a very tiny, young philippine spotted deer along with the rest of their group in their pen.
White tiger ridge held a tiger trio. Two of which were sleeping on their platform. We were highly entertained as the third stalked the water buffalo on the other side of the fence.
You then move onto the new cheetah reserve where the white wallibies were once housed. I was suprised as i always remember it being a small enclosure but they seemed to have two spacious fenced arease (personally I thought they could have had more)... From what I could see there were seven cheetah in one of their two enclosures, four of which looked younger (flufflier) and smaller than the other three. The 8th cheetah could not be seen.
The park has a large pack of hunting dogs, all were asleep next to the fence line which separates them from the white lions... the African lions look very healthy and the cubs that I saw on my last visit have grown up into their teens and were lounging round with the adults.
Also doing well are the white lions. Seems like they have had a baby boom - there must have been around 13 lions in their main enclosure, and i could see a young male and female locked in another cage at the back of the exhibit. There were two very young cubs keeping us entertained play fighting as we drove passed. No idea if they plan on moving some lions away, as i can see that living conditions for them will become cramped if they continue to breed.
Addax and a very large group of red lechwe can be seen in their own drive through exhibit, then you go into the Eurasian reserve. On the left you can see orange bengal tigers. 4 being in one exhibit. Next to them in a smaller fenced area was another white tiger, and in the end i believe i could see 3 more orange tigers.
As always the Bactrian camels were causing traffic. There were two younger camels from my last visit. The Pere davids deer herd has grown also from what i could see.
Moving onto the elephants (my favourite)! I've never found out but there are only 3 African elephants on view now. Does anyone know if the other bull has been moved? I believe they used to have two bulls and two cows. Not sure whether they alternate the bulls on different days, but my last two visits now there has always been the two females and one male on show. The bull was shut in the smaller pen outside whilst the females had the larger open space. Every time i've visited i've never seen them in distress (swaying, head bobbing etc...) so i guess theyre enjoying life at the park.
Anyway, they still house the two bull cape buffalo - not sure if they're going to get some females in. One bull seemed to be having a battle with the solid wooden fence around the trees in their square enclosure. The herd of ankole cattle weren't very active which they usually are. They just stood in a group near the gates that lead to the holding pens.
Walking around discovery trail I noticed that they now house two Amur Leopard. I couldn't tell you where their origonal leapord went, and I don't remember seeing her in the netted enclosure in the african reserve. The two new leopards seemed pretty happy, but later in the day one took to pacing up and down.
We didn't go and watch the sealion show as we've seen it so many times before. When looking in their pool 3 fur seals were swimming round and round, one being their big male.
I counted nine hippo (i think) in their lake/pond. very smelly indeed, but the hippo seemed happy enough. Very entertaining when one grunts and the rest start vocalising to.
Well that's it from me, sorry for the poor spelling if any, and anything else which is wrong with it. Just thought some people would be interested to see whats happening in the park at the moment.
Was a shame that the giraffe weren't allowed out, the roads were wet so i assumed it was due to fear of one falling and injuring themselves that they had been kept in their holding pens. They have a healthy, large herd of Eland, and noticed a very small young eland curled up near a feeder. Four rhino were on display, and the gnu herd seemed to have grown in numbers from my last visit.
Moving on a little through the white wallabies and reindeer to the wolves. Didn't really stop much to view the wolves, all of which were sleeping in the bottom corner of their exhibit.
They still have a very large herd of blackbuck, and there have been two new aditions to the asian buffalo herd. Also spotted a very tiny, young philippine spotted deer along with the rest of their group in their pen.
White tiger ridge held a tiger trio. Two of which were sleeping on their platform. We were highly entertained as the third stalked the water buffalo on the other side of the fence.
You then move onto the new cheetah reserve where the white wallibies were once housed. I was suprised as i always remember it being a small enclosure but they seemed to have two spacious fenced arease (personally I thought they could have had more)... From what I could see there were seven cheetah in one of their two enclosures, four of which looked younger (flufflier) and smaller than the other three. The 8th cheetah could not be seen.
The park has a large pack of hunting dogs, all were asleep next to the fence line which separates them from the white lions... the African lions look very healthy and the cubs that I saw on my last visit have grown up into their teens and were lounging round with the adults.
Also doing well are the white lions. Seems like they have had a baby boom - there must have been around 13 lions in their main enclosure, and i could see a young male and female locked in another cage at the back of the exhibit. There were two very young cubs keeping us entertained play fighting as we drove passed. No idea if they plan on moving some lions away, as i can see that living conditions for them will become cramped if they continue to breed.
Addax and a very large group of red lechwe can be seen in their own drive through exhibit, then you go into the Eurasian reserve. On the left you can see orange bengal tigers. 4 being in one exhibit. Next to them in a smaller fenced area was another white tiger, and in the end i believe i could see 3 more orange tigers.
As always the Bactrian camels were causing traffic. There were two younger camels from my last visit. The Pere davids deer herd has grown also from what i could see.
Moving onto the elephants (my favourite)! I've never found out but there are only 3 African elephants on view now. Does anyone know if the other bull has been moved? I believe they used to have two bulls and two cows. Not sure whether they alternate the bulls on different days, but my last two visits now there has always been the two females and one male on show. The bull was shut in the smaller pen outside whilst the females had the larger open space. Every time i've visited i've never seen them in distress (swaying, head bobbing etc...) so i guess theyre enjoying life at the park.
Anyway, they still house the two bull cape buffalo - not sure if they're going to get some females in. One bull seemed to be having a battle with the solid wooden fence around the trees in their square enclosure. The herd of ankole cattle weren't very active which they usually are. They just stood in a group near the gates that lead to the holding pens.
Walking around discovery trail I noticed that they now house two Amur Leopard. I couldn't tell you where their origonal leapord went, and I don't remember seeing her in the netted enclosure in the african reserve. The two new leopards seemed pretty happy, but later in the day one took to pacing up and down.
We didn't go and watch the sealion show as we've seen it so many times before. When looking in their pool 3 fur seals were swimming round and round, one being their big male.
I counted nine hippo (i think) in their lake/pond. very smelly indeed, but the hippo seemed happy enough. Very entertaining when one grunts and the rest start vocalising to.
Well that's it from me, sorry for the poor spelling if any, and anything else which is wrong with it. Just thought some people would be interested to see whats happening in the park at the moment.
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spent what seems an age rummaging around then came back with a drink opened the back door and gave it to his child and casually stood there then got in 
well we could have beeped the horn to alert them but NO instead we had the camera ready and the video camera ready just incase he got savaged 
, they used to have Ostrichs but no sign of them.