West Midland Safari and Leisure Park West midland safari park

[James27]

Saya on their website there's a "Fantastic new animal attraction for 2008". Anyone have any idea what it is?

 

[^Chris^]

I don't know this collection at all, but I think someone said something about Cheetahs.

 

[Pygathrix]

White cheetahs, presumably

 

[CZJimmy]

It is the Cheetahs (not white for a change! )

 

[James27]

Ha great Any idea where they're going?

 

[CZJimmy]

After the wolves, where the white wallabies are apparently.

 

[ZooMania]

They've had them off-show for a while now, so it's about time. Also no other safari park in the UK at least has Cheetahs, though Knowsley and maybe Longleat used to, would cheetahs be a good safari park species though.

 

[CZJimmy]

If bears can at Woburn, Cheetahs can at WMSP, I believe...

 

[zoogiraffe]

Cheetahs were kept at Windsor in the past and i think a couple of the others they didn`t do to badly but they did i believe get quite stressed by cars at Windsor.

 

[KJ]

Where did the cheeters come from, where they from a safari park in the first place ??

 

[kiang]

Does anyone know of any new species coming in for this year?

 

[James27]

Well judging by this thread I guess there's going to be Cheetahs

 

[Paradoxurus]

Cheetah's need not neccessarily be an unsuitable species for a safari park setting - they bred at Windsor which was quite an achievement for the time.

 

[Bobby_21]

Cheetahs at WMSP

Its just been announced in the press about the new cheetah plains exhibit at WMSP. Apparently it will be two brothers who i think were born at Paradise Park in Hertfordshire (sorry if thats wrong was just a guess). There move was shown on a tv programme called Safari Park that was shown on Central TV, i think its still possible to watch the whole series on the Central TV website. In the programme they did say they may get females in before they opened the exhibit but obviously they haven't or they haven't been given a reccomendation by the breeding programme.

 

[CZJimmy]

Yes the series is available on the ITV central website (and so is the series from Twycross Zoo)

 

[ZooMania]

The series can be watched on Animal Planet aswell

 

[bongorob]

West Midland's new TV ad features cheetahs as the main 2008 attraction.

 

[CZJimmy]

West Midland's new TV ad features cheetahs as the main 2008 attraction.

The website has also been updated accordingly...

 

[Pertinax]

I'm surprised Cheetahs are featured as a 'new attraction'. Will it be a drivethru enclosure I wonder? They don't make a terribly exciting exhibit, having a tendency to recline flat out on their sides with just their head looking around to see what's going on. Unless the exhibit is designed to make them show off their speed somehow. I think this may be planned for Whipsnade's new Cheetah exhibit.

 

[Writhedhornbill]

No, It's not drivethrough according to their site.