Well, Santa has made his list and checked it twice, who out of our Shetlands is naughty or nice??
With any luck they’ll all be waking up to carrots in their stockings tomorrow, especially Ollie, the most patient pony of them all 😂
#shetlandponies #ponies #cute #naughty #nice #santa #christmas #christmaseve #zoolife #northumberlandcollegezoo #keeperphotos
Christmas has come early for our six-banded armadillo Stinky, in the form of her favourite treat- a tortoise egg! 🥚 (don’t worry, there was never going to be a tortoise in this egg- just like chickens the eggs our tortoises lay are infertile).
Sound on for extra slurping! 😋
#northumberlandcollegezoo #biaza #zooanimals #zoofacts #keeperphotos #animals #armadillo #sixbandedarmadillo #christmas #treats
👅 Tongue out Tuesday 👅
👅 Happy Tuesday everyone !! Here’s one of our emperor tamarins enjoying their fresh water 💧
👅 Just a reminder we’re closed now until Saturday 22nd February 2025.
👅 Gift vouchers available online now - they make the best gift 🎁
#alliwantforchristmas #itsbeginningtolookalotlikechristmas #secretsantagift #zooexperience #bookonline #bookonlinenow‼️ #gift #animaladoptions #gifts #vouchers #emperortamarin #emperortamarinmonkey #emperortamarins #emperortamarinsofinstagram
🎁Thank you so much to hobbledown_epsom for their amazing #biazasecretsanta2024 presents we received earlier this week.
🎁Each year participating collections who are members of BIAZA join in to do a secret Santa.
🎁We’ve sent our secret present to our chosen zoo so can’t want to see their reaction to what we got them.
🎁This year’s theme was ‘people’ and as you can see we received some great presents from hobbledown_epsom for our hard working and amazing keeper team to keep their hands warm and have a nice brew together over the festive period.
Thank you 🎁
#christmasparty #funday #secretsanta #secretsantagift #secret #itsbeginningtolookalotlikechristmas #alliwantforchristmas #alliwantforchristmasisyou
Happy World Coati Day from Dora and Diego!
South American Coatis are members of the Racoon family. Their Latin name, Nasua nasua, literally means ‘nose’! They use their long flexible snoot to root around for food on the forest floor and it’s one of our keepers favourite things about them! 👃
Coatis are also excellent climbers, they even have double-jointed ankles that can rotate 180 degrees which allows them to skilfully climb up and down trees!
Although fairly common, Coatis face threats in the wild including deforestation, hunting and the pet trade. 🌳
We love celebrating our wonderful animals, so share some of the Coati love today! 🤎
#northumberlandcollegezoo #biaza #zoo #zooanimals #zoofacts #education #animals #coati #cute #noses #worldcoatiday
Happy Friday Everyone!
As you can tell our boisterous Shetland ponies are enjoying these crisp cold mornings :-)
Hope you’re all having a great week!
Reminder - we’re now closed until 22nd February 2025.
Gift vouchers and adoptions can be bought online.
#SaleSaleSale #christmasshopping #gifts #animaladoption #adoption #gift #christmasgiftideas2024 #closed #shetlandpony #shetlandponies #shetlandponysofinstagram
🎃 Happy Halloween Everyone 🎃
🎃 Ruby and Oscar would like to wish everyone a wonderful and spooky Halloween today. 🎃
🎃 They’ve had their pumpkin 🎃 (well Ruby decided it was just hers as you can tell!! )
🎃 Has everyone else carved a pumpkin? 🎃
🎃 Why not tag us or share the photos of your carved pumpkins below !!! 🎃
#boo #Halloween #pumpkins #familyfun #sunshine #halfterm #activities #halloweencostume #pumpkinseason #halloween #halloween2024 #halloweendecorations #pumpkin🎃 #pumpkin
Meet our Degus, who are enjoying munching on all the fallen leaves from last nights storms!
You won’t see our degus or other rodents at our zoo, as we keep them all in our small mammal room where it’s quiet, warm and dark most of the day, as they are nocturnal so like to be left alone!
They are however an excellent resource for our animal care students to practice their animal husbandry skills!
#mammals #education #zoo #northumberlandcollegezoo
Dik Dik name reveal…
Thank you all for voting for a name for our baby Kirk’s Dik Dik, yes she really is the cutest thing!
We can confirm, as of 7am this morning, the name with the most votes (insert drumroll here) is…
❤️Poppet❤️
Poppet was the choice of our outdoor section lead keeper, who also gets this fantastic up-close footage of these elusive little animals! (This is also a really good way of carrying out visual health checks on the animals we can’t always get close to!)
Come and say hello to Poppet, and her mum Charlotte, every weekend at Northumberland College Zoo, Kirkley Hall!
#babyanimals #naming #zookeepers #dikdik #kirksdikdik #zoo #northumberlandcollegezoo #cute #mammals #biaza #visit #north #visitnorthumberland
🐸 Frog 🐸 Friday 🐸
🐸 ‘Hop’-e everyone’s having a great week!
🐸 Here’s one of our White’s tree frogs 🐸 chilling under a leaf 🍃
🐸 See these amazing frogs and other wonderful reptiles and amphibians in our discovery room which is open 2-3pm this Saturday and Sunday
#amphibian #amphibiansofinstagram #amphibious #whitestreefrog #whitestreefrogs #whitestreefrogsofinstagram #frogfriday #frogs #frog #treefrogs #treefrogsofinsta #treefrogsofinstagram💚🐸 #treefrogsofinstagram🐸🙃❤️
Our Male Hornbill enjoying a puzzle feeder picnic in the gorgeous sunshine!
Bring your own picnic to enjoy at the zoo today, or enjoy our range of sandwiches, tray bakes, hot and cold drinks, snacks and ice cream available at our food kiosk, situated at the picnic area.
#familydaysout #zooanimals #keeperphotos #zoo #northumberlandcollegezoo #visitnorthumberland #visitengland
This week is guinea pig awareness week! 🐹
Guinea pigs are popular pets, but how much do you know about their welfare needs? We will be posting all week with fun piggy facts!
Although small, guinea pigs need lots of space to exercise, a minimum enclosure size of 120cm x 60cm is recommended for 2 pigs, but bigger is better!! They like piles of hay and houses to hide in, tunnels and toys to play with and soft bedding to keep them comfortable. During the summer our piggies also love getting outside to explore!
#guineapigs #guinea #pigs #gunieapigawarenessweek #animals #zoofacts #northumberlandcollegezoo
