Yorkshire Wildlife Park Update March

OrangePerson

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Visited Saturday

Red River Hogs have been mating (they were when I went at the end of January) but no signs of a pregnancy.

Dream the zebra looks pregnant & has grown round the middle a lot in the last 3 or 4 weeks since I was last there. The male whose name I've forgotten actually came in shooting distance of my camera instead of staying right at the other side of the enclosure.

Anakole calf male named Cody.

Anne the meerkat lost a litter of 3 a couple of weeks ago, going outside when it was really cold. The third one of the first litter looks noticeably smaller than the others but as I thought it was dead about 3 times one day last year it has done OK!

The lemurs all look in great shape but no signs of babies, ruffeds chasing all the others round like mad at feed time.

2 joeys in evidence in the wallabies. Deer have gone now.

Possibility a hunting dog is pregnant. We were there late and saw them being fed (after most people leave to spare the sensitive!) they really tore the carcass apart in a flash!

The road to access the camels is coming on now and they are possibly moving the guanaco up that end so the addax can have their enclosure (giving the hunting dogs something new to stare at!) The male addax was tussling with the male lechwe on Saturday, previously he was squaring up to the anakole bull.

Tiny goat kid born last week. Even the rabbits have had babies (I suppose there's no 'even' about it with rabbits!).

Lions very noisy ,just visible through 3 fences. The enclosure is coming on and looks really good.
 
I've been told it's a male & 3 females. One of the keepers previously said one of them had had a pup last year but it didn't survive.

Someone said a couple of months ago they were going to exchange the male because they'd been given the wrong one originally. I did't think it was so wrong it was female!
 
I've been told it's a male & 3 females. One of the keepers previously said one of them had had a pup last year but it didn't survive.

Someone said a couple of months ago they were going to exchange the male because they'd been given the wrong one originally. I did't think it was so wrong it was female!
Okay I could be wrong but that was the impression I got last year when I meet up with the bosses at the park.
 
I'm sure the hunting dogs came from Knowsley who originally had about 10/11 which where 1:1 and offspring. I'm sure the majority of the offspring where female as well, and Knowsley now have something like 1:5. The dogs couldn't form a proper pack and so had to be split into 2 groups, so i'm presuming one group went to Yorkshire
 
I'm sure the hunting dogs came from Knowsley who originally had about 10/11 which where 1:1 and offspring. I'm sure the majority of the offspring where female as well, and Knowsley now have something like 1:5. The dogs couldn't form a proper pack and so had to be split into 2 groups, so i'm presuming one group went to Yorkshire
Correct they did come from Knowsley.
 
Both parks must be attempting to breed siblings then, because i was told the alpha female died, leaving 1:0 and offspring which led to the packs splitting

Knowsley sent an Ankole bull there, so they must have a good relationship between them.
 
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