🎃 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 !!! 🎃
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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!
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🐸 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
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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
✅ ‘Zooming’ into the weekend !!
✅ Here’s Lottie and her calf - as you can she she’s got a jump in her step.
✅ This was captured by one of our fantastic Cadet Keepers Ava while she was supporting the keepers on the zoo this week!!
✅ We’re open Saturday and Sunday - the ticketing system is still not working but you can buy tickets at the gates when you arrive on the day.
#animalcare #dikdik #kirksdikdik #zoos #cute #dikdiks #zoomiesforlife #zoomiesfordays #zoomiesactivated #zoomies
From everyone here at the zoo we wanted to say a big thank you for all the visits you’ve made to see our amazing animals over the summer.
Here’s a little video of our newest arrive - a baby Dik-dik - having zoomies around her habitat ! Safe to say she’s definitely finding her feet 👣
We’re now open weekends from now on along with the full October Half term!!
#kirksdikdik #dikdik #dikdiks #zoomies #zoomiesfordays #zoomiesactivated #zoomiesforlife #thank #you #thankyou #thankyouforyoursupport
This is Leia, our magnificent Argentine Tegu! 🤩
Although we might think she’s just being cheeky, Leia uses her tongue like this to detect chemicals in the air and this helps her to locate food. 👅
☀️We are open today and tomorrow (29th and 30th!) for the final days of the summer holidays!
Remember we are closed this weekend for a private event!! ☀️
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Good morning from Teemo our Asian Palm Civet!
Teemo is an animal you might not spot when you visit. Civets are nocturnal animals, so Teemo spends most of the day in his nest box sleeping. Today he was up early keeping his one eye on the keepers whilst they were doing their morning checks. 👀
Civets are threatened in their natural habitat due to exploitation- civets are particularly fond of coffee cherries, the beans inside pass through undigested and come out in the civets poo! 💩 the resulting coffee is said to have a distinctive flavour and is sold as very expensive ‘Kopi Luwak’ or civet coffee. Demand for this product means civets may be taken from the wild and farmed to produce this coffee! This not only impacts on wild populations but the farming systems comprise the welfare of the animals used!
Check out The Civet Project for more information!
#northumberlandcollegezoo #biaza #zoo #conservation #keeperphotos #zoofacts #education #animals #mammals #summer #civet #Asian #palm #asianpalmcivet
Princess one of our donkeys celebrated her 15th Birthday earlier this week! She kindly shared her frozen ‘cake’ with her bestie - Lillian :-)
#donkey #donkeys #donkeysofinstagram #northeastfamilydaysout #northumberland_pics #northumberland_uk
🌟HAPPY INTERNATIONAL ARMADILLO DAY 🌟
Wishing our Dougie a happy armadillo day!
Did you know that armadillos are the only living mammals that wear shells and they are closely related to anteaters and sloths.
Armadillo means ‘little armoured one’. A group of armadillos is called a ROLL!
Come and say hello to our Dougie when you visit.
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