Thank you very much to all who kindly dropped off their spare clean uncut pumpkins. Our tapir family are always very pleased to have some chopped into their fruit, veg and cereal mix. Early hours of this morning we had a little snow flurry, but it’s been a calm and glorious, sunny day. It is hard to imagine that in a few hours, a three day battering of rain and winds in excess of 60 mph are expected. We are very sorry not to be able to welcome visitors this weekend but look forward to opening again next Saturday and Sunday. #tapir #lunch #stormBert #Linton #Cambridgeshire
Our Cotton-top tamarin twins are up to mischief this morning! #Tamarin #twins #cute
Our adorable Cotton-top tamarin twins are now just over 7 weeks old. We thought you’d like to see how they’re doing! Enjoy😊💕
🌞It’s turned out to be a glorious day! Nabulaa and Kali are soaking up the late morning sunshine🌞 💕 #lions
Linton zoo tapir family
A lot of the plants, trees and shrubs we grow in our gardens are very pretty to look at, but have a dual purpose, the majority have been selected for their benefits to native wildlife and for many of our animals. Throughout the spring into autumn we harvest leaves, flowers, fruits, seeds, stems and roots which are then fed fresh to tortoises, lemurs and browsing animals, providing enhanced diets and important enrichment. Our tapir family Tiana, Tamara, Erro and Thiago always appreciate browse, here’s three of them making short work of buddleia 😊💕! #tapir #browse #buddleia
Here is your promised “cuteness”😊We are delighted to announce that our Cotton-top tamarin pair became parents for the first time on Monday. You can see from the film that dad Inesperado is very pleased with his adorable twins, he carries them around handing them back to mum Jayda for feeding. Cotton-top tamarins are from a small forested area of northwestern Colombia. In the late 60’s and early 70’s around 30,000 were taken from the wild for medical research. Today the most significant threat to their survival in the wild is human activity and deforestation, it is estimated that only five percent of its habitat remains. Their numbers are on decline and the IUCN rank the cotton-top tamarin as critically endangered with a high risk of extinction in the wild. Our pair are part of a managed European Breeding Programme or EEP. #cute
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This is Queenie, one of our Victoria crowned pigeons. They originate from the swampy forests of Northern New Guinea and surrounding islands. Now the Dodo is extinct these birds are largest of the pigeon family. These beautiful birds are quite fearless of humans and so are easily hunted for their amazing head plumes, they are rapidly decreasing in numbers and are now IUCN ranked as vulnerable. Our pair were both captive bred and are part of a European breeding programme EEP aimed at saving them from extinction.
Katinka settling down to enjoy the morning sun
Thank you Simon for sharing this lovely video of our Eastern quoll. Stella and her daughter Annie lunching together.
💕💕💕Doreen, one of our wallabies, gave birth to an unusual albino joey last year. We thought you would like a little update so here’s a video from yesterday afternoon. He or she, we are still not sure yet, is not yet fully grown and is still so fluffy and very cute indeed. 💕💕💕
Our red kangaroos know how to chill 😃Did you know….a group of kangaroos is known as a mob, troop or court.
Good morning with Tilly our six-banded armadillo, she is so cute💕😊. We are open this weekend 10am until 4pm last admission at 3pm. We’re open for the Easter holidays from Friday 29th March, tickets are now on sale via our website www.lintonzoo.com Have a lovely day!
