tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66192347382761479062024-02-07T00:49:47.863-08:00South Lakes Wild Animal ParkFollow the keepers, animals and life at at South Lakes Wild Animal Park - Cumbria's best zoo and conservation park.karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-17314411013915832402012-05-04T03:54:00.001-07:002012-05-04T03:54:31.903-07:00Rare Babirusa Birth 2012<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 22pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">South Lakes at the forefront of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Babirusa Conservation<o:p></o:p></span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Cumbria, North West England is
certainly becoming renowned through Europe for our success in breeding Babirusa
(<i>Babyrousa babyrussa) , </i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">a<i> </i></span>very
rare Sulawesi species. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">September 2003 saw the first young born here at the park and then first
time mum Kota went on to rear “Sausage” who under the International Breeding
Programme for Endangered Species later moved to Chester to start a family of
his own.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Following that initial success the park had many issues with Kota
killing any subsequent young, common amongst Babirusa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every Babirusa is vital in the breeding
programme as they are so rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only
South Lakes Wild Animal Park, Chester Zoo & Antwerp have been successful in
breeding Babirusa throughout the whole of Europe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the decision was made by Animal Manager Jo
Dennis to hand rear any future litters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nights camping out around due dates were rewarded on 29<sup>th</sup>
August 2007 when Kota gave birth to twins Nakula and Malu. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Only one other zoo within the European Breeding Programme has ever
successfully hand reared Babirusa and that was Port Lympne in 1996, and
although Jo had very little to go off and weeks of disturbed nights followed
with hourly feeds and growing piglets, after many setbacks and worrying
moments, Jo reared the two piglets to maturity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Male Malu was moved to Wuppertaal Zoo in Germany to be paired with a
female.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nakula stayed here at South
Lakes and a young male was brought in to pair with her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptQxsfWDELUZEsErM1L6n5M9OL3clGCiKPP6IhCeHeDPPM1hk9QhVeDkN4Ag3JzzB-roaQIg-mC7ktQLfEqFv11FUhkOzGHgqQizS0PG3NaUyDK7zU5yUFnUygZ4BL-5fu5xUa6dBULum/s1600/babirusa+baby+april+2012.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiptQxsfWDELUZEsErM1L6n5M9OL3clGCiKPP6IhCeHeDPPM1hk9QhVeDkN4Ag3JzzB-roaQIg-mC7ktQLfEqFv11FUhkOzGHgqQizS0PG3NaUyDK7zU5yUFnUygZ4BL-5fu5xUa6dBULum/s320/babirusa+baby+april+2012.png" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">On 11<sup>th</sup> March 2012 Nakula amazingly
produced her own piglet and with all her “NATURAL” instinct began rearing it
herself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The baby, a female, has been
named Cinta (pronounced chinta) which means “love “in Indonesian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At 6 days old she weighed 900g and has
gradually been putting on weight, at her most recent weigh in was a healthy
2.75kg showing mum Nakula is doing a great job. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">From today visitors can see mum and piglet Mum
outside in the spring sunshine. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">A Fantastic success – for Jo, for South Lakes but most
of all for Babirusa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Endemic to the
Sulawesi rainforests of Indonesia, the unique tusks erupting from its head
below its eyes, the Babirusa today is close to extinction numbering as few as
5,000 individuals in the wild.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The main
threat being the speedy destruction of its rainforest home, and despite legal
protection from Indonesian wildlife law, the illegal poaching for its meat.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></div>
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For those that visit the park regularly will know that our Tiger & Jaguar feeding is a spectacle not to be missing as they climb up 6 metre poles to hunt for their food and will focus their day around that feeding, please make note below that this feeding has been moved to a later time.<br />
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<strong><span style="color: #3d85c6;">TALK & FEEDING TIMES</span></strong> from 31st March<br />
11:15 Hand feed Giraffes<br />
11:45 Lion talk & feeding, watch the pride hunt for their lunch<br />
12:15 Reptile talk & meet a Snake<br />
12:45 The Birds of the Aviary - Vultures, Condors, Macaws talk & feeding<br />
1:15 Lemurs of Madagascar talk & hand feeding<br />
1:45 South American animals - Andean Bears, Giant Otters talk & feeding<br />
2:15 Rhino & Giraffe talk fallowed by hand feed Giraffes<br />
3:00 Primates of the park talk & feeding<br />
3:15 Penguin talk & hand feeding<br />
3:45 Big Cat feeding - not to be missed Tigers & Jaguars hunt for their lunch<br />
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Talks are free if you want to join in hand feeding there is a cost of £1 per person.<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>ADMISSIONS</strong></span> from 31st March<br />
Adults - £13.50<br />
Children - £8.00<br />
Seniors - £9.00<br />
Under 3's go FREE<br />
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<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><strong>OPENNING TIME</strong></span><br />
<span style="color: black;">10am - 5pm everyday.</span><br />
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Please note we do have group rates available, please contact us on 01229 466086 ext.0 if you are bringing a larger herd to see ours.<span style="font-size: x-small;"> Booking must be made in advance.</span><br />
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For more information on the park please visit <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">www.wildanimalpark.co.uk</span></a> where you will find all the information you need from up and coming events to local bed and breakfasts.karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-18507178754864512072012-02-13T01:34:00.000-08:002012-02-13T01:34:01.174-08:00Penguins take an early lead<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:View>Normal</w:View> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves/> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:DoNotShowPropertyChanges/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:DoNotPromoteQF/> <w:LidThemeOther>EN-GB</w:LidThemeOther> <w:LidThemeAsian>X-NONE</w:LidThemeAsian> <w:LidThemeComplexScript>X-NONE</w:LidThemeComplexScript> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:SnapToGridInCell/> <w:WrapTextWithPunct/> <w:UseAsianBreakRules/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:SplitPgBreakAndParaMark/> <w:DontVertAlignCellWithSp/> <w:DontBreakConstrainedForcedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> <w:Word11KerningPairs/> <w:CachedColBalance/> </w:Compatibility> <m:mathPr> <m:mathFont m:val="Cambria Math"/> <m:brkBin m:val="before"/> <m:brkBinSub m:val="--"/> <m:smallFrac m:val="off"/> <m:dispDef/> <m:lMargin m:val="0"/> <m:rMargin m:val="0"/> <m:defJc m:val="centerGroup"/> <m:wrapIndent m:val="1440"/> <m:intLim m:val="subSup"/> <m:naryLim m:val="undOvr"/> </m:mathPr></w:WordDocument> </xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" DefUnhideWhenUsed="true"
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Penguins "swimming for victory"</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Penguins have taken an early lead in this year's Park Mascot Elections. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt;">Voting started on Saturday 11th Feb with every child through the door given a voting slip - and in true democratic fashion it up to you to come along and listen to the candidate’s elections speeches before casting your vote as to who you think deserves to be “2012 Animal in Chief”. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The candidates (with the help from keepers) have been working hard on their campaigns looking for your vote, budgets are slightly less than council elections but never the less a serious issue - and lying is not an option!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The candidates & their election slogans are: </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Rhinos:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Charging to the top!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Giraffes: <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Head and Shoulders above the rest!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Jaguars:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Grace & pace to win the race!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Capuchins:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Stealing your votes!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Penguins:<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Swimming for victory!”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-44000442742099371312011-11-17T06:42:00.000-08:002011-11-18T02:02:56.268-08:00New Rhino Birth, 'Indiana" born 17.11.11<div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwdZb8fnD8s3AE1089da1Rf2Kv_RdxHdoe4CVA66wuA__h1emyoBixFfmisGEtW0hNW8SSTRlZKaVHpAmpqFJy1og5-XVKdkyvbu4SRy_ULepKk_zdD52mQ3wfgMgpLBchyYAcBwKifkF/s1600/Indiana+Birth+17.11.11+%25285%2529.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" hda="true" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEihwdZb8fnD8s3AE1089da1Rf2Kv_RdxHdoe4CVA66wuA__h1emyoBixFfmisGEtW0hNW8SSTRlZKaVHpAmpqFJy1og5-XVKdkyvbu4SRy_ULepKk_zdD52mQ3wfgMgpLBchyYAcBwKifkF/s320/Indiana+Birth+17.11.11+%25285%2529.jpg" width="213" /></a><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">17<sup>th</sup> November 2011 10.20am will go down as another important date in the history of the park when White Rhinoceros<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ntombi gave birth to a very rare, very special (and very cute) calf .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Staff arrived at the park this morning and found her waters broke so have been waiting and watching on CCTV with baited breath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The calf arrived at 10.20, named Indiana after Park owners young son and for everyone at the park it was one of the most amazing experiences to see this little calf born then watch mum give a loving lick then it was not long with a little encouragement from mum the calf made its first tentative, if not wobbly, steps.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Mum Ntombi arrived in the park from a private breeding reserve in South Africa in September 2003 and since then has been inseparable from 10 year old Male Mazungu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has been a long waiting game since pregnancy was confirmed in 2010 (after pregnancy testing) as the gestation period is between 15-16 months – but now the wait is over. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Visitors to the park this weekend will be able to view mum and baby --- Entrance from 1<sup>st</sup> November through until 10<sup>th</sup> February is free of charge. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In 2008 female white rhinos Ntombi and Tala gave birth to their first calves (Nyala & Zimba), in 2010 animal keepers had witnessed further successful rhino mating but then how do you get a 2 tonne rhino to “pee on a stick”? </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Cue one very special biomedical science department with some very special testing equipment at an Austrian University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faecal samples (rhino pooh), and of course it had to be fresh, were collected from each of the females from mid April to the beginning of May. Clearly labelled in small plastic containers like that very famous pea advert the samples were “packed & frozen within 2 hours”.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In May a courier was sought who could deliver the samples to Vienna within 2 days, allowing the samples time to thaw but not be wasted, shipped off, fingers were kept crossed and in June we received the very happy news that Ntombi is pregnant expecting her second calf. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Based on mating records and a 15 month gestation period the pitter patter of tiny hooves was expected September/October 2011. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">So now you know! </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">South Lakes Wild Animal Park is home to one of the most amazing herds of white rhino found in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With 2 calves born in 2008 the herd of 6 share their summer savannah with a herd of giraffes and troop of baboons - a truly wonderful sight. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 115%; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">On 1<sup>st</sup> June 2008 then<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7 year old White Rhinoceros<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ntombi gave birth to her first,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very rare,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>calf - Nyala .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BBC webcam viewers witnessed the birth firsthand and for Park Owner David Gill it was one of, if not the, most amazing experiences “Rhinos are my favourite animals here at the park – and to see this little calf born then watch first time mum give her a loving lick then it was not long with a little encouragement from mum the calf made her first tentative, if not wobbly, steps.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Park is home to 6 white rhinos,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Males Huubke and Mazungu; Tala and son Zimba born in 2008; Ntmobi daughter Nayala born 2008 and the latest addition Indiana.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Southern White Rhinos was one of the first kind of rhino to be at the brink of extinction in our life time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the start of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century there were perhaps only 30 surviving in the wild – thanks to careful conservation and International Breeding Programmes – like Ntombi and Mazungo are involved in, there are today around 11,500 in the wild<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- but almost all of them live in one single country.</span><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Calibri", "sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For more details contact the park on 01229 466086 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzrE-Ibf_Gsd2kfTdW-ANPKqL-_Ijq7HcV7O6ZRTYnD4g5tZ9xrpOVcXwEXww7grWvA60HgwTaVvWRmYjVlRQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-47622932669097229282011-10-12T06:24:00.000-07:002011-10-12T06:24:40.644-07:00Magic of Christmas<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><strong><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;"><u><em>Magic of Christmas 2011</em></u></span></strong></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><em><strong><span style="color: black;">A truly magical and unforgettable experience</span></strong></em></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif"; font-size: 10pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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Christmas is going to be even more Magical this year as Santa and his reindeers land December 3rd at South Lakes Wild Animal Park. The whole park is transformed into a magical winter wonderland as more than 80,000 fairy lights twinkle their welcome.<br />
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It's the most wonderful time of the year here as South Lakes Wild Animal Park when trees, lights, skating rink, donkeys, full size nativity join Santa, elves and of course Santa's reindeer for a magical festive period. All seasonal activities are undercover and for 2011 newly extended Christmas areas will be open.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Every Saturday and Sunday in December then from the 17th-24th December enjoy: </span>The MAGIC of Christmas: Santa and Nativity<br />
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<span style="color: red;">New activities for 2011</span>NIGHT SAFARI<br />
SANTA EXPRESS<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394;">Sat 3rd Dec; Sat 10th Dec; Sat 17th December enjoy:</span>BREAKFAST WITH SANTA<br />
CHRISTMAS DINNER WITH SANTA</div><div class="description summary" style="text-align: left;"></div><div class="description summary" style="text-align: left;">For more information on each of our Christmas activities and prices please click <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_parkinfo.asp?ID=xmas2011"><span style="color: #0b5394;">HERE</span></a>!</div></td></tr>
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<div align="left" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"> </div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-38809516544183224562011-08-22T08:12:00.000-07:002011-08-22T08:12:45.216-07:00Amur Tiger Nina turns 16!<span style="color: #cc0000;">It's a big day Saturday - Nina is 16!</span><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">We have a very special day at the Park this week, on Saturday 27th August <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park</span></a> will be celebrating Nina's, our <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=ASI2"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Amur Tiger</span></a><span style="color: black;">, sixteenth</span> birthday! Nina was born at <a href="http://www.marwell.org.uk/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Marwell Zoological Park</span></a> on 27th August 1995 and was brought to the Park in December of 1996 which really was the "Year of the Tiger" for the Park because in April <span class="siteText">we saw our first Tiger Toba, a <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=INO6" style="color: #3d85c6;">Sumatran Tiger</a> take up residence</span>.</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXmNjklrbS09n3xOy6W6wSU0q20_2LkuZ2NpyzVyYnGdW5vW7oSByl4qjgw5PIKmfH8EmmEPJs7CHWiew3_Ag-B2Q4Fycu-mdpYxd89TOlW0Ijj6tf9DLdgTQfs_szZKsTG8Vq4-LQOT-/s1600/amur+-+Mark+Butcher.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="158" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNXmNjklrbS09n3xOy6W6wSU0q20_2LkuZ2NpyzVyYnGdW5vW7oSByl4qjgw5PIKmfH8EmmEPJs7CHWiew3_Ag-B2Q4Fycu-mdpYxd89TOlW0Ijj6tf9DLdgTQfs_szZKsTG8Vq4-LQOT-/s200/amur+-+Mark+Butcher.jpg" width="200" /></a>Nina spent her years at the park sharing an enclosure with her brother Egor, their genes were well represented through the breeding programme so they were here not for breeding but as Ambassadors for their species to raise awareness of the problems facing wild tigers.</div><br />
Nina alone has done a great job raising more than 1 million pounds for Tiger Conservation - every penny of which has been used to protect her wild cousins. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;">The Amur Tiger in Russia faces a number of threats including disappearing forests, loss of prey (food) and poaching. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCogTpWOqcMUQUW8y7YEuLapyQZ6CcruPIEOfP-s_NK_JKWM3C9xO48x1eZ2ZGyx5y-Fb-ouCClgCNl1hWERetTPi5WE4kp-8FTL1MprbRnQS9dP1QXqf1Q39EgIdSW6Hn73P6xNS_zI_W/s1600/amur_tiger_map_72dpi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="159" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCogTpWOqcMUQUW8y7YEuLapyQZ6CcruPIEOfP-s_NK_JKWM3C9xO48x1eZ2ZGyx5y-Fb-ouCClgCNl1hWERetTPi5WE4kp-8FTL1MprbRnQS9dP1QXqf1Q39EgIdSW6Hn73P6xNS_zI_W/s200/amur_tiger_map_72dpi.jpg" width="200" /></a>While she has been here Nina has well and truly become the Cat of the Park and has had visitor after visitor become enchanted with her. She has many ways to wow the crowds at South Lakes however one of the highlights of the day when she takes delight at making visitors realise just how big she is - when she goes on her hind legs and places her paws up on the viewing windows. This puts her at face to face height with visitors and allows them, if they are brave enough, to really appreciate the Tiger - taking a good look at all details of her facial features and even just being in eye contact with her is a must! And just how big those teeth, paws and mouth really are.</div></div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><b><u><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">HAPPY BIRTHDAY <em>NINA</em>!</span></u></b></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-71624065666694165002011-08-17T09:15:00.000-07:002011-08-18T01:01:48.835-07:00Daniel Donates Unwanted Specs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoF_wrMBDHhLxLUaiQvwV0fSBpSddk3ExxQ05Hs2N11nFRniWzLduOzAofX-o1EjeV5gSodrmkhDUamMXnfopbeJaaiZl-1hEIjx0CwMEWH2p5c7i1MhiBsB-6NKzrJTue1IJ4E7dtz0p/s1600/SDC11017.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijoF_wrMBDHhLxLUaiQvwV0fSBpSddk3ExxQ05Hs2N11nFRniWzLduOzAofX-o1EjeV5gSodrmkhDUamMXnfopbeJaaiZl-1hEIjx0CwMEWH2p5c7i1MhiBsB-6NKzrJTue1IJ4E7dtz0p/s320/SDC11017.JPG" width="240" /></a></div>Today we had one boy, Daniel Knight donate a total of 185 pairs of unwanted specs to South Lakes Wild animal Park so that we can get them sent off to help the children of Niger.<br />
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Daniel visited the Park last summer and took one of our brochures home, when reading through the brochure he noticed ways in which everyone can help towards conservation out in Niger. He composed a note for his headmaster and when the headmaster agreed to let Daniel go ahead with his collection, he painted a box to look like giraffe skin fitted hole so that people could add their spare glasses at their convenience. He gave a talk in assembly to the whole school which as you can imagine was quite daunting for an 8 year old! <br />
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He took in the fact that there are many people who have unwanted specs lying around thier home and we here at the Park send the specs out to a clinic in Niger.The clinic looks after three tribes which consists of 20,000 people in total. It is very important to help the villagers out, for many of the people out there, there is a lack of vitamin E, a lack of nutrition and vitamin A and they have a lot of problems with their eyes. These glasses will go to those villagers.<br />
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Although the Wildlife Protection Foundation are focused on conservation, it is very much a community project. If the community can see that the giraffes can bring them benefits, it helps them be enthusiastic about looking after the giraffes as well.<br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><strong>So a big thank you to Daniel for all his hard work! </strong></span>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-21600298854809737062011-08-16T09:10:00.000-07:002011-08-16T09:10:44.212-07:00South Lakes Wild Animal Park Goes Shopping<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkyKxqP2dEAlmWRIPzskEJT9VGSAztBdBnAaQw_dGk12FfABqfdeK2EOCSWpdtO3pVikZ2oriTWFatsrMD26N9m-9r_sRNRBrgOdWQPPqwBRvMD5GRp2aaMuco4NjVqYplvJz47ATyLQNm/s1600/happy+feet+opens+05.4.07.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkyKxqP2dEAlmWRIPzskEJT9VGSAztBdBnAaQw_dGk12FfABqfdeK2EOCSWpdtO3pVikZ2oriTWFatsrMD26N9m-9r_sRNRBrgOdWQPPqwBRvMD5GRp2aaMuco4NjVqYplvJz47ATyLQNm/s200/happy+feet+opens+05.4.07.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Plucking up the incentive to do the families monthly shop is bad enough for a normal household; wading round the supermarket with a laden trolley with enough supplies to please everyone and last a family of 4 is challenge enough! Imagine instead of the normal household mouths to feed, you had more than 220,000 - 18,000 visitors a month to shop for – imagine the number of trolleys you’d need. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">It’s bad enough at home when you run out of loo roll or washing up liquid, when you go through up to 15 industrial size toilet rolls and a gallon of dishwasher powder a day popping to the shops isn’t really an option. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">On a busy day in the cafe we can go through 48 bags of chips; 150 baguettes; 100 burgers (and buns and cheeses slices) 120 teabags; 240 bottles of coca cola; 120 Fab ice lollies. The seasonality and weather affects our needs which is why it is essential to have very good relationships with all our suppliers; we know that we can order something and it is with us the next day.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0KlZIf5fsrtX3tA7Pm3vQ0GNFtgrocgmdqR38Tm_E244sa6ykwBX_vrab-B4jE4GfBCQzfEvqZwqHRKSGeEgK9BvGCY2xInzipntk7mMhxII2RtiXCbXexf_IwtdIZrZ03tmA0YXIQD-/s1600/SDC11000.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW0KlZIf5fsrtX3tA7Pm3vQ0GNFtgrocgmdqR38Tm_E244sa6ykwBX_vrab-B4jE4GfBCQzfEvqZwqHRKSGeEgK9BvGCY2xInzipntk7mMhxII2RtiXCbXexf_IwtdIZrZ03tmA0YXIQD-/s200/SDC11000.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Then there are your pets, dog food, cat food, bunny food and all the necessary supplies – going home without “Markies in our household is a big no no! Imagine having 80 different types of “pets”, to cater for the needs of more than 360 individuals, we need to make sure all the animals get the nutrients they need on a daily basis. . </span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8fm9Z9ToUmTe8mqnLf78UN4CdAguPvRDthi75oe1MeOnxqqw2SLAo_0qJJZfV-CL1Fg6Xk7Jabvr2gEPAxCL6q8uPaAXcHcKwwPFn-IMPby64mdtKClHpZYKW52bZzeMhTbVX9TBuL8r/s1600/Andrew+Stephenson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="126" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI8fm9Z9ToUmTe8mqnLf78UN4CdAguPvRDthi75oe1MeOnxqqw2SLAo_0qJJZfV-CL1Fg6Xk7Jabvr2gEPAxCL6q8uPaAXcHcKwwPFn-IMPby64mdtKClHpZYKW52bZzeMhTbVX9TBuL8r/s200/Andrew+Stephenson.jpg" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Our Penguins, Giant Otters & birds eat their way through 40 kilos of fish a day – that’s 14,600 kilos a year. Our Giant Otters are fussy eaters and will only eat fresh water roach so our Fish order has to be specific for them.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Our carnivores – Jaguars, Lions, Tigers, Fennec Foxes munch their way through 200 Kilos of meat a week that’s 10,400 kilos a year plus 45 chickens a week – 2,340 a year!</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XL_YJ00IplkTYrM8neFkK7gXJ-Ff8tU3JeFl9VlgVtuqtky2-oqg3VKG6ovzqD0ngygbJPQfJhbgWAkBrjdl1KJa0jKh3rcuQ6ubpzEez86YKvdMcZgnmQypYXkdiNkibQQ2_Pg3OSdP/s1600/WHITEHANDED+GIBBON.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8XL_YJ00IplkTYrM8neFkK7gXJ-Ff8tU3JeFl9VlgVtuqtky2-oqg3VKG6ovzqD0ngygbJPQfJhbgWAkBrjdl1KJa0jKh3rcuQ6ubpzEez86YKvdMcZgnmQypYXkdiNkibQQ2_Pg3OSdP/s200/WHITEHANDED+GIBBON.JPG" width="186" /></a><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Its rats we have to buy our snakes, about 6 a month.</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Our ever growing heard of Rhinos and Giraffes munch their way through ¾ of a bale of hay a day that’s 273 huge bales of hay a year. </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Our Primates, with the help of local supermarkets – Asda, Morrisons, Tesco, very healthily eat their way through 25,000 tons of fresh fruit & vegetables every year.</span></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Average Kilos fresh food</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: windowtext 1pt solid; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Kilos dry food</span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 1;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Tamarins</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2.1</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Per Day</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">261.9</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 2;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Siamangs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2.1</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Per Year</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">95,594</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 3;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Lar Gibbons</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 4;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Spider Monkeys</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4.2</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 5;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Howler Monkeys</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">0.8</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 6;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mandrills</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 7;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 8;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ruffed Lemurs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 9;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ring Tailed Lemurs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">12</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 10;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Gentle Lemurs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 11;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Black Lemurs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1.2</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 12;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Brown Lemurs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">2.1</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 13;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Mongoose Lemurs</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">1.5</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 14;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 15;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Baboons</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">18</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 16;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Capuchins</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">4.6</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 17;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 18;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Bats</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">5.2</span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 19;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td></tr>
<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 20;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Per Day</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">80.8</span></u><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
</div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 90.65pt;" valign="top" width="121"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr style="mso-yfti-irow: 21; mso-yfti-lastrow: yes;"><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: windowtext 1pt solid; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 111.75pt;" valign="top" width="149"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Per Year</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: windowtext 1pt solid; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: windowtext 1pt solid; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 92.1pt;" valign="top" width="123"><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">29,492</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", "serif"; font-size: 12pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"></span></div></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; mso-border-left-alt: solid windowtext 1.0pt; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 5.4pt; padding-right: 5.4pt; padding-top: 0cm; width: 87.45pt;" valign="top" width="117"></td><td style="background-color: transparent; border-bottom: #f0f0f0; border-left: #f0f0f0; border-right: #f0f0f0; border-top: #f0f0f0; padding-bottom: 0cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; padding-top: 0cm;"></td></tr>
</tbody></table></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-84210822329630734332011-08-11T07:34:00.000-07:002011-08-11T07:34:17.458-07:00New Ducks Arrive!<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbI4Wd1E8y3hxFzntvIWqQhyM9OElWhTXp91iRm1yZAePN6a5RhrHgzaXfTVI-tgAq85uw_oMOLBUyDUklD421qLFuxLfBoF25WqAhMq1nYjjyTPwzmUpdINrWcIdOVezu4D8jjbSPBIq/s1600/281811_10150249007766680_667426679_7845130_3691276_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSbI4Wd1E8y3hxFzntvIWqQhyM9OElWhTXp91iRm1yZAePN6a5RhrHgzaXfTVI-tgAq85uw_oMOLBUyDUklD421qLFuxLfBoF25WqAhMq1nYjjyTPwzmUpdINrWcIdOVezu4D8jjbSPBIq/s320/281811_10150249007766680_667426679_7845130_3691276_n.jpg" width="320" /></a>Friday 5th August one of <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park's</span></a> Keepers Fiona Douglas set off to collect Shelduck, Sharp Winged Teals & Mandarin. <br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">These ducks came from <a href="http://www.wwt.org.uk/"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Martin Mere WWT</span></a> (Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust) Burscough, Ormskirk.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTs-YUs9HNwH2Owv_BAmqgywEdIv7ySYsupCVXSxPDGvoQg-5S2LM0ePk6Tjl9m3UtXnOd_QX59XM8IFKgTmaFY9A-QRsOeupChX16FG-rW102UDd87uAdFQNHxW3JPqt226AsYXVMS1Z/s1600/281536_10150249006831680_667426679_7845106_4601208_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcTs-YUs9HNwH2Owv_BAmqgywEdIv7ySYsupCVXSxPDGvoQg-5S2LM0ePk6Tjl9m3UtXnOd_QX59XM8IFKgTmaFY9A-QRsOeupChX16FG-rW102UDd87uAdFQNHxW3JPqt226AsYXVMS1Z/s200/281536_10150249006831680_667426679_7845106_4601208_n.jpg" width="133" /></a></div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4DS0-dQjQhjjRI6g3cdR6eqBYV3PMI0Wzmw0FFop01UPQ7AcJ6SUiNM1oQ0WR0xV-Fm6Y74xTp1CLfk-PEEgy6K96gvZwQozWTYLcc7MdrMDc_aCUNpFO_CxcqcLpFM6LDcBXJUXTMdV/s1600/224459_10150249008326680_667426679_7845142_1425071_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4DS0-dQjQhjjRI6g3cdR6eqBYV3PMI0Wzmw0FFop01UPQ7AcJ6SUiNM1oQ0WR0xV-Fm6Y74xTp1CLfk-PEEgy6K96gvZwQozWTYLcc7MdrMDc_aCUNpFO_CxcqcLpFM6LDcBXJUXTMdV/s200/224459_10150249008326680_667426679_7845142_1425071_n.jpg" width="200" /></a>While at Martin Mere the Ducks were wormed and the sexes were checked by Steve and Julia before they were brought back to South Lakes Wild Animal Park. </div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: right;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Sharp Winged Teal</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
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</div></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP0t0Z0B-hoMFcatvHdUqUKB1L6DYmOZav2NdC2AS0VzxgKRHokqMrVY_3ItkWZYtYrf6HO30jFE7acGsVoGL_JyWWKVLJOWJLRapWhuzJ9smKgHT78cIpWIZJQMcyM__iUi8aXY7aU820/s1600/262920_10150249674201680_667426679_7851493_7295201_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP0t0Z0B-hoMFcatvHdUqUKB1L6DYmOZav2NdC2AS0VzxgKRHokqMrVY_3ItkWZYtYrf6HO30jFE7acGsVoGL_JyWWKVLJOWJLRapWhuzJ9smKgHT78cIpWIZJQMcyM__iUi8aXY7aU820/s200/262920_10150249674201680_667426679_7851493_7295201_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">On Arrival back to the Park Fiona introduced the Ducks to their new home, the lake, where they joined other Shelducks, Mandarins and Sharp Winged Teal as well as...</div><ul><li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><ul><li>Hawaiian Geese </li>
<li>Magellan Geese</li>
</ul><ul><li>Black Swan</li>
</ul><ul><li>Marbled Teal</li>
</ul></div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuxaoyhAdS4TbsrI9EZ0Q-rwstCpNhcS4Ky1RGdOyIiWmQH5JK5lWW2BeJLdR-TemF9RmQz0JDE7fAKUVuxvL6sEV7yExP8Uf_LCfSk2qro8xtAy5A5QunSHFIJwbq9E57EpDB4ie61oS/s1600/mandarin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUuxaoyhAdS4TbsrI9EZ0Q-rwstCpNhcS4Ky1RGdOyIiWmQH5JK5lWW2BeJLdR-TemF9RmQz0JDE7fAKUVuxvL6sEV7yExP8Uf_LCfSk2qro8xtAy5A5QunSHFIJwbq9E57EpDB4ie61oS/s200/mandarin.jpg" width="200" /></a>Ringed Twal</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Widgeon</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Red Breasted Goose</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Mallard Duck</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Hawaiian Goose</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;">Cape Barren Goose</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Northern Chestnut Teal</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ukOWZh6adH13kV5KCvi_e8oUktAmCfARUxqqBl-lTzByP5roNYtnPH5pAyWcje_7f1S51dwcqC7UMZVYj5yW1KLiUUnX4JY1kUXg_XrUOwkwBEEwpTd14RoyAkh3cuoOeBNEke9YklVq/s1600/250272_10150249006421680_667426679_7845096_8072991_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" naa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3ukOWZh6adH13kV5KCvi_e8oUktAmCfARUxqqBl-lTzByP5roNYtnPH5pAyWcje_7f1S51dwcqC7UMZVYj5yW1KLiUUnX4JY1kUXg_XrUOwkwBEEwpTd14RoyAkh3cuoOeBNEke9YklVq/s200/250272_10150249006421680_667426679_7845096_8072991_n.jpg" width="200" /></a>Northern Shovelor</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Barnacle Goose</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Common White Eye</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Rosy-Bill Pochard</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Tuffed Duck</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Red Crested Pochard</div></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Common Pochard</div></div></li>
</ul><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; text-align: left;">For all the information on all these different Ducks, Geese and Swans please click<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><a href="http://filesdown.esecure.co.uk/wildlifepark/big_duck_banner.pdf_11082011-1305-42.pdf"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">here</span></a>.</div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-89769182010839845212011-08-05T05:52:00.000-07:002011-08-05T05:52:03.427-07:00Emperor Tamarin Twins Born<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_aDtp4KJZTn_fsbIHBjDMtBWbBL6gSXt9q9jAkKNgs55GkfaUNlqKnss93vCar797fVfTw7_rXvNk2SnZxZOrcGnoHpJg-2mVy00UqNdZZThflq4bgLbGik_COK6TFhlujvPnxPESzLd/s1600/yess.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjv_aDtp4KJZTn_fsbIHBjDMtBWbBL6gSXt9q9jAkKNgs55GkfaUNlqKnss93vCar797fVfTw7_rXvNk2SnZxZOrcGnoHpJg-2mVy00UqNdZZThflq4bgLbGik_COK6TFhlujvPnxPESzLd/s200/yess.JPG" width="200" /></a></div>On Wednesday 27th July <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_home.asp" style="color: #3d85c6;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park's</a> Primate Keeper Liz started her normal daily routines to find some great new additions to her Tamarin family.<br />
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Our female<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=SAM9" style="color: #3d85c6;">Emperor Tamarin</a> Barbara gave birth to twins early morning, the twins are yet to be named. These pictures were taken a few days after the birth and you can see the fur is growing nicely but you can still see the pink of their faces.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9nJVbTB0rxGgjZ7yUItA6eBXlvhtiHRToHuaeluUGOC8zDmbxm1mqMn51OpduyghkgPLzPA0mCKWChncZBUZgO_nnl_6AONfJHuussv5OjfwqAc1qLVVEXDhkKcj2lCNsDAhtMVBSvgL/s1600/y.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjx9nJVbTB0rxGgjZ7yUItA6eBXlvhtiHRToHuaeluUGOC8zDmbxm1mqMn51OpduyghkgPLzPA0mCKWChncZBUZgO_nnl_6AONfJHuussv5OjfwqAc1qLVVEXDhkKcj2lCNsDAhtMVBSvgL/s200/y.JPG" width="151" /></a>The two Tamarin babies can been seen in their enclosure until they are big enough to join our free roaming Tamarins.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SmbihuaK94Xa1FGo0IdBR816bCRus0Vu_ox5QzRhJPpr5-7XQQhK8wEBp5C_RxMmS1Qra06T9Ikk5uTaxIv1XOFbfHtmpDOnRWihGR3kBvUdojYrKKbrbfkYC4yvdRWJi_aJlKh1DjEH/s1600/yes.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3SmbihuaK94Xa1FGo0IdBR816bCRus0Vu_ox5QzRhJPpr5-7XQQhK8wEBp5C_RxMmS1Qra06T9Ikk5uTaxIv1XOFbfHtmpDOnRWihGR3kBvUdojYrKKbrbfkYC4yvdRWJi_aJlKh1DjEH/s200/yes.JPG" width="200" /></a>For information and facts on Emperor Tamarins click <a href="http://filesdown.esecure.co.uk/wildlifepark/Emperor_Tamarin.pdf_05082011-1240-22.pdf" style="color: #3d85c6;">HERE</a>.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-65095168240887613572011-08-02T09:19:00.000-07:002011-08-02T09:19:29.240-07:00Help stop the travelling circus in Indonesia!Dear Animal Friends and Colleagues abroad,<br />
<br />
Hereby we wish to ask your attention and support for the following:<br />
Indonesia has a travel shows using (baby)sunbears, small clawed<br />
otters, yellow crested cockatoos and bottle nose dolphins. The circus<br />
travels from town to town and performs in each town one month. The<br />
conditions are very poor. We have been campaigning against this circus<br />
for almost two years now and unfortunately the circus has a legal status due to<br />
a minister regulation allowing travelling shows with protected animals<br />
for educational purposes. Thats why our campaign so far has not been<br />
very succesfull and the threats against us continue (from the circus<br />
to our organization).<br />
<br />
Support through polite letters are much appreciated to ask for a<br />
closure of this horrific circus.<br />
More details are explained in the letter and please feel free to<br />
contact me for any questions.<br />
<br />
The Indonesian government is sensitive for outside pressure so we<br />
think a letter from your organization to the Indonesian ambassador in<br />
your country or maybe, if you can make the time, organizing a meeting<br />
with the ambassador will<br />
be very effective.<br />
<br />
If you are willing to ask for a meeting with the ambassador I will<br />
send all additional information needed.<br />
JAAN has a formal agreement (MOU) with the government, signed in<br />
october 2010 to rescue and relocate the dolphins. This would include<br />
rescue of the other animal; the baby bears,otters, the lonely<br />
orangutan and the other animals.<br />
<br />
This agreement was made after we proved the illegal status of the<br />
dolphins and other animals in the circus. But, seven months after the<br />
agreement has been undersigned, the dolphins are still used in the<br />
show of WSI and no action has been taken by the Indonesian Government.<br />
<br />
It would be fantastic if you can send this letter or your own version<br />
to the Ambassador of Indonesia in your country.<br />
Thank you very much for your support.<br />
<br />
Femke den Haas<br />
<br />
Jakarta Animal Aid Network<br />
<br />
<div align="center">PLEASE HELP - write or email your letters to: <br />
<strong>Indonesian Embassy<br />
38 Grosvenor Square<br />
London W1K 2HW </strong></div><div align="center">or email: <a href="mailto:kbri@btconnect.com">kbri@btconnect.com</a></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-25327712062130641742011-07-29T01:02:00.000-07:002011-07-29T02:03:40.969-07:00White Rhino pregnancy<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; text-align: center;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 18pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">HOW DO YOU PREGNANCY TEST A WHITE RHINO? </span></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span></div><div style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxODI4YAv5eRF6XZ_RRnbMDUgM6yHoOoL4WooqrtjCFM0jmp3t4j2MWWzsUMZMew9-2ogmTH_yzUIKV4aJ3wbkbTicxMhrtCutsmMxnxMJXT1OncKOt2rjBreMXc8yAJxBGmzl3EpC4QYs/s320/229_2968.JPG" t$="true" width="320" /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In 2008 female <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?ID=AFRB">White Rhinos</a> Ntombi and Tala gave birth to their first calves (Nyala & Zimba), in 2010 animal keepers had witnessed further successful rhino mating but then how do you get a 2 tonne rhino to “pee on a stick”? </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Cue one very special biomedical science department with some very special testing equipment at an Austrian University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faecal samples (rhino pooh), and of course it had to be fresh, were collected from each of the females from mid April to the beginning of May. Clearly labelled in small plastic containers like that very famous pea advert the samples were “packed & frozen within 2 hours”.</span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VvGZOK5tGrnSa8EwWkF6YzutrPBOUlt_VCG3gaINujVG-AACdLEeASLmnhelQS2HIYJ31Fh92kPqaemnEv5_BSInuaG82BSIw32OJvkDoDa9rssLj40utNClVLvW76AADTqS-1e2XSXx/s1600/229_2970.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="132" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3VvGZOK5tGrnSa8EwWkF6YzutrPBOUlt_VCG3gaINujVG-AACdLEeASLmnhelQS2HIYJ31Fh92kPqaemnEv5_BSInuaG82BSIw32OJvkDoDa9rssLj40utNClVLvW76AADTqS-1e2XSXx/s200/229_2970.JPG" t$="true" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In May a courier was sought who could deliver the samples to Vienna within 2 days, allowing the samples time to thaw but not be wasted, shipped off, fingers were kept crossed and in June we received the very happy news that Ntombi is pregnant expecting her second calf. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Based on mating records and a 15 month gestation period the pitter patter of tiny hooves is expected September/October 2011. </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So now you know! </span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 36pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park is home to one of the most amazing herds of white rhino found in the UK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With 2 calves born in 2008 the herd of 6 share their summer savannah with a herd of giraffes and troop of baboons truly wonderful sight. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNcbZbK6iUKI2mj0ecKCC0hPVLkKd-qQaYftFMffCMIA0HSAyc8gRv5Oq15MjRjyA-H0cFeOtoPm4TRHs95yd_FaxJBwsBXg39JpV3KMaKwv6NVM-BylvnHYalI0HF8JTiLR9LKbEVeEY/s1600/SDC10673.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVNcbZbK6iUKI2mj0ecKCC0hPVLkKd-qQaYftFMffCMIA0HSAyc8gRv5Oq15MjRjyA-H0cFeOtoPm4TRHs95yd_FaxJBwsBXg39JpV3KMaKwv6NVM-BylvnHYalI0HF8JTiLR9LKbEVeEY/s200/SDC10673.JPG" t$="true" width="200" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">On 1<sup>st</sup> June 2008 then <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>7 year old White Rhinoceros Ntombi gave birth to her first, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>very rare, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>calf - Nyala .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>BBC webcam viewers witnessed the birth firsthand and for Park Owner David Gill it was one of, if not the, most amazing experiences “Rhinos are my favourite animals here at the park – and to see this little calf born then watch first time mum give her a loving lick then it was not long with a little encouragement from mum the calf made her first tentative, if not wobbly, steps.”</span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">9 year old mum Ntombi arrived in the park from a private breeding reserve in South Africa in September 2003 and since then has been inseparable from 10 year old Male Mazungu.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Park is home to 2 other white rhinos, 11 year old male Huubke and 7 year old female Tala<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>– who arrived with Ntombi,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>here as part of the European Breeding Programme.<span style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"> <span lang="EN-US"></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Very few establishments breed White Rhinos, we are being told there were only 2 births within Europe last year which makes it even more amazing.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: Symbol; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Southern White Rhinos was one of the first kind of rhino to be at the brink of extinction in our life time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At the start of the 20<sup>th</sup> Century there were perhaps only 30 surviving in the wild – thanks to careful conservation and International Breeding Programmes – like Ntombi and Mazungo are involved in, there are today around 11,500 in the wild<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- but almost all of them live in one single country.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Female rhinos reach sexual maturity between 6-7 – while males take a little longer at 10-12.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zkyjgfXBCCfk9BM0ESm61pTWfVYqRAJgMeeTIWtx0T-n3igodfuBzuVnVMpfGxqZ5eGlrbadnX_5J0FawHx8e-Bo7ZD2tpVeitz7IhdW0siclMMzxU3w3hUgCUFKRZ-ZwoJd6TPM6nO2/s1600/kolk.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1zkyjgfXBCCfk9BM0ESm61pTWfVYqRAJgMeeTIWtx0T-n3igodfuBzuVnVMpfGxqZ5eGlrbadnX_5J0FawHx8e-Bo7ZD2tpVeitz7IhdW0siclMMzxU3w3hUgCUFKRZ-ZwoJd6TPM6nO2/s200/kolk.jpg" t$="true" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Rhino gestation period is between 15-16 months. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"> ·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Park Director David S Gill beams – “This will be another of the most important births in the whole history of the park, White Rhinos are such an endangered species and this park prides itself in being at the forefront of conservation all over the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt 72pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">The Park opens at 10am, Admission Charges are as follows:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Adults £12.50; Children £8.00 /Oap £9.00</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">·<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri;">For more details contact the park on 01229 466086 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 115%;"></span></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-61243446433214650612011-07-27T06:41:00.000-07:002011-07-27T06:41:18.703-07:00Two new male Red Kangaroos arrive!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7okH5Dv0yCGur8HrJCfjolqrHQwWjiZD5E_nOPJGX2MRiLc8_D1lQu31Qwqgb_HAA-wVZgZ8Z96aLvC1fgDYmqdXFwnv5herWDLebOLihcmSv5GJ8ajCJ37SyRBhNLNrWp789i9w9MNUK/s1600/Jack+Junior+male+red+kang7.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7okH5Dv0yCGur8HrJCfjolqrHQwWjiZD5E_nOPJGX2MRiLc8_D1lQu31Qwqgb_HAA-wVZgZ8Z96aLvC1fgDYmqdXFwnv5herWDLebOLihcmSv5GJ8ajCJ37SyRBhNLNrWp789i9w9MNUK/s200/Jack+Junior+male+red+kang7.JPG" t$="true" width="181" /></a>On 5th July 2011 two new male <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AUZA"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Red Kangaroos</span></a> joined our females in the Australian are of <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_home.asp"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park</span></a>. <br />
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Jack Junior, JJ, pictured to the right and Reginald, Reggie pictured below. <br />
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Roo keeper Leanne and Keeper Gavin collected the Kangaroos from Holland to bring them back to the park to join our mob of Red Kangaroos who until their recent arrival were all females.<br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvSSqIcaSJLxBmpFWRkHcoLiZ6Rfe44s38UWWaHDWZO9v5bDjKAFRkO-k0Y-yPuiLbllOURDcAsGnujV1IjQeuEtQ4-Vuz0o_BafBhVPVAJevouz-UY6rVMnXtyz61zbhlJx-WypnZNWq/s1600/SDC10862.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="165" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOvSSqIcaSJLxBmpFWRkHcoLiZ6Rfe44s38UWWaHDWZO9v5bDjKAFRkO-k0Y-yPuiLbllOURDcAsGnujV1IjQeuEtQ4-Vuz0o_BafBhVPVAJevouz-UY6rVMnXtyz61zbhlJx-WypnZNWq/s200/SDC10862.JPG" t$="true" width="200" /></a>The two new males have settled in well joining our Red &<a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AUZE"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Western Grey Kangaroos</span></a> along with <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AUZF"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Parma</span></a>, <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AUZB"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Riversand</span></a> and <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AUZC"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Swamp Wallabies</span></a> all enjoying the green glassland in our Bush area.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div>Everyday at the park there is a great opportunity to get up close and personal by being able to hand feed these animals for just £1.00, you can buy the bags of animal food at our <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_parkinfo.asp?ID=PIMR"><span style="color: #3d85c6;">Cafe</span></a> entrance window.<br />
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To view more videos, including one of our Kangaroos getting hand fed please visit our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthLakesAnimalPark?feature=mhee"><span style="background-color: white; color: #3d85c6;">YouTube</span></a> page.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.youtube.com/embed/sx5S4y-pZQw?feature=player_embedded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-20753280145994466902011-07-25T02:08:00.000-07:002011-07-25T02:08:30.239-07:00Our Female Lion sisters turn 5!<div style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You'll hear the roar of celebrations down in the Lion den this week.</span><br />
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Lion Keepers Mark & Gavin will be preparing a very special birthday cake as twin sisters, lionesses, Tasa and Chevelle turn 5. Come and join us and wish them happy birthday.<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">On 24th May 2009 two young <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AFR2" style="color: #0b5394;">Lionesses</a>, twin sisters Tasa & Chevelle arrived at <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/" style="color: #0b5394;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park</a>. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheEBpbvopdei2GxJOeawLUsXK8JegRR6mcwTYhhYqmN1RQThtTGUXrZ-2cagJ3NbljW9HalsOF4_sskU1-rZfsGJp4AkpaLuqKghE4dToTjMkuxez9liR7d5LEXApwim1H_qw-UUmsf3fs/s1600/SDC10810.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheEBpbvopdei2GxJOeawLUsXK8JegRR6mcwTYhhYqmN1RQThtTGUXrZ-2cagJ3NbljW9HalsOF4_sskU1-rZfsGJp4AkpaLuqKghE4dToTjMkuxez9liR7d5LEXApwim1H_qw-UUmsf3fs/s320/SDC10810.JPG" width="240" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Born either side of midnight 25th July these sisters will be celebrating their birthdays at the park this week, Tasa on 25th July and Chevelle 26th July.</span></span><br />
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Lion feeding and talk takes place every day at 4:20pm as the lions use all their strength as they climb 5m poles to hunt for their dinner.<br />
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Park Director David Gill and Keeper Gavin Clunie made the journey to Zoo Sables D'Olone in France to bring back the pair. It is hoped they will join a breeding program with our <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=AFR2" style="color: #0b5394;">Lion</a> Shikar. </div><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">African Lion Facts</span></b></u><br />
<ul><li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A male Lions roar can be heard up to 5 miles away</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lions can run at up to 60km/hour - that is the length of a football field in 6 seconds, but only for short distances</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Lions are the only cat who live in groups - called "prides".</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";">Both <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=MAG3"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Belted Ruffed Lemurs</span></a> and <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=MAG4"><span style="color: #0b5394;">Black and White Ruffed Lemurs</span></a> are extremely rare in the wild making these 4 births very special, keepers have been keeping a watchful eye on the 4 precious </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">________________________________________________________________________</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";">South Lakes Wild Animal Park is working to save these animals in the wild. The <a href="http://filesdown.esecure.co.uk/wildlifepark/atongil_lemur_conservation_1_.pdf_20072011-1050-16.pdf">project</a> called “Antongill” is based in the Antainambalana Forest, in the north east of Madagascar, the largest remaining piece of lowland tropical rainforest on the island – covering an area of 900,000 hectares, which stretches down to a coral reef.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Tahoma", "sans-serif";">The forest is amongst the richest in the world and the villagers of the region live close and mix regularly with Indris, Black and White Ruffed lemurs and the white Sifaka (pictured) (which is endemic to their region), as well as tomatoe frogs, carpet chameleons, humpback whales which breed in the bay, spinners dolphins and marine turtles which lay their eggs on the beaches.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial", "sans-serif";">The project works with the villagers to develop, through research education alternative farming methods which secures them a good level of life but preserves the lemur’s habitat. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none;"></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none;"><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">Like most birds it is the boys that are more colourful and between April and September peahens (girls) will “window shop” for a new suitor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To grab the girl’s attention males will display their feathers step around and shake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This complex dance is certainly one of the wonders of the animal kingdom. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;">But it won’t last long, towards the end of summer the feathers will gradually all fall out and will regrow longer and fuller next year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br />
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</div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-54223495100905189682011-07-08T06:53:00.000-07:002011-07-08T06:53:56.675-07:00Jimmy the Shelduck is 20 tomorrow!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Is Jimmy the oldest Shelduck in the world? Jimmy has lived with park Director since 1991 and when David opened South Lakes Wild Animal Park in 1994 Jimmy moved into the park with him. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Jimmy is just one of the parks collection of birds from marbled teals to wood ducks, Hawaiian geese, black swans, <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=WOR11">coscoroba swans</a>, moorhens - including a very rare white one, <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?ID=AUZ2">ibis</a>, <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?ID=WOR5">storks</a>, <a href="http://spoonbills./">spoonbills.</a>..</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Very rare white moorhen home at South Lakes Wild Animal Park </td></tr>
</tbody></table></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"> A firm favourite with all visitors Jimmy can often be seen “following” in the hope they have purchased some animal food for him, school groups are his favourite or families with children and he'll quite happily move from child to child as they all take it in turns to feed him. Extra supplies of the special duck mix have been bagged ready for the weekend. </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;"><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">Happy Birthday Jimmy... </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>Shelduck facts: </b></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit;"><br />
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<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>The <b>Common</b><b><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span></b><b>Shelduck</b> (<i>Tadorna tadorna</i>) is a widespread and common duck throughout Europe. Most migrate to warmer climes in winter. </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Found in the salt marshes and estuaries around the coastline of Britain.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span><i>Tadorna</i> comes from Celtic roots and means "pied waterfowl", essentially the same as the English "shelduck".</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Looking a little like a goose the Common Shelduck is a striking bird with its red bill, white and chestnut body, dark green head and neck. </span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Sexes are similar, but the female is duller. The male has a swollen red bill in the breeding season.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<div style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: 36pt; text-indent: -18pt;"><span style="font-size: small;">·<span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span>Moulting flocks can be very large (100,000 on the Wadden Sea), since most pairs leave their partially grown young in a creche with just one or two adults.</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
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</div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-9664979169752727822011-07-05T07:39:00.000-07:002011-07-05T07:39:16.477-07:00<span style="line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="color: #6aa84f; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"><u><strong>RESCUED DUCKLINGS VENTURE OUT FOR THE FIRST TIME</strong></u></span></span><br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPse37ZlVrSSVguk-0ZU634A_KTrFE_Hh86iVn-FqTygHKCoEO7NVEf0Cr4X0X6hbm-gpGDlszsIWSBQej1X3dyJwtgLGcaxz2rgvVcCus4Hi0RKT1yZ1kOxAwhZrMRtw0UWt4GhZeq0IM/s1600/wood.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="146" i$="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPse37ZlVrSSVguk-0ZU634A_KTrFE_Hh86iVn-FqTygHKCoEO7NVEf0Cr4X0X6hbm-gpGDlszsIWSBQej1X3dyJwtgLGcaxz2rgvVcCus4Hi0RKT1yZ1kOxAwhZrMRtw0UWt4GhZeq0IM/s200/wood.png" width="200" /></a></div><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wood Duck mum laid 5 eggs and on the 26<sup>th</sup> June when 2 hatched she wandered off to show her </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">new pair the big world leaving 3 eggs behind.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She never returned so keepers placed the 3 remaining eggs in the incubator and when just a couple of days later all 3 eggs had hatched placed mum and all 5 ducklings into the vet centre together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mum took over and today mum and her 5 ducklings were released into the top tropical aviary. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Check out the video of her and ducks exploring and swimming for the first time. </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthLakesAnimalPark"><span style="color: orange; font-family: Calibri;">http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthLakesAnimalPark</span></a><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: orange;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">It’s all go in the duckling world though - As one brood of very cute ducklings move out of the vet centre to explore the big outdoors for the very first time another brood move in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hatched on Sunday the latest mum has 8 ducklings to take care of – like the others these can be viewed in the vet centre until big and strong enough to venture outside. </span></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wood ducks some facts: </span></span></u></b></div><ul style="margin-top: 0cm;" type="disc"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wood ducks arrived in <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_home.asp"><span style="color: orange;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park</span></a> October 2010</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">One of the most colourful ducks of North America</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Not quite as big as a mallard males, like most males in the duck world, are the most colourful with multi coloured iridescent plumage and red eyes. </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">They are easy to spot when swimming as they bob their heads back n forth </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Usually 7-15 eggs are laid which hatch after an average 30 days</span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">In the wild after hatching wood ducklings will jump down from their nests and make their way to water – sometimes that jump can be up to 88 metres without injury! </span></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-size: 18.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Wood ducks are a dabbling duck feeding on berries, seeds and insects, in short shallow dives. </span></span></li>
</ul>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-21986307628734438292011-07-01T08:46:00.000-07:002011-07-01T08:46:19.957-07:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div align="center" style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><u><a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_parkinfo.asp?ID=PIMR" style="color: #073763;">Maki Restaurant </a><span style="color: #073763;">- new family and budget friendly menu </span></u></b></span></div><div align="center" style="color: #e69138;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Maki -meaning <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=MAG8" style="color: #e69138;">Ring tailed lemur</a> in Malagasy</span><br />
</div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="margin-right: 0px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjotWmrrti5x-5uozRHuDGMJ1sr_AP3szZPjM_269pP2o6RVeR09IlxvjJzRS0-9dwKRgrp7coPaZI_kNNghw36piD1EmzUUSCnrRGyhScEChSbd9QbbvE_HqdNss45BrVLKJk9KBFTX5Fq/s1600/261844_235351353160386_100000565693611_890401_2896264_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjotWmrrti5x-5uozRHuDGMJ1sr_AP3szZPjM_269pP2o6RVeR09IlxvjJzRS0-9dwKRgrp7coPaZI_kNNghw36piD1EmzUUSCnrRGyhScEChSbd9QbbvE_HqdNss45BrVLKJk9KBFTX5Fq/s200/261844_235351353160386_100000565693611_890401_2896264_n.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"></span></blockquote><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><u><span style="font-size: 18pt;"></span></u></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Feed a family of 4 for £15 </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">2011 sees the launch of a new family and budget friendly<span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><a href="http://filesdown.esecure.co.uk/wildlifepark/Feed_a_family_of_4.pdf_01072011-1349-28.pdf" style="color: #3d85c6;">menu</a> </span> slashing prices and the introduction of fresh healthier options. Fresh salads, freshly made baguettes, chilli, are just some of the new additions. Kids can choose from a variety of tasty and healthier options now priced at £2.50 with adult meal deals from £4.99. </span><br />
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">We were all told yesterday<a href="http://www.blogger.com/post-edit.g?blogID=6619234738276147906&postID=2198630762873443829#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span></span></a> its official (like we didn’t already know it) households have suffered the biggest fall in spending power for 34 years, meaning we don’t have as much spare money and are all watching the pennies – and that’s set, according to the Bank of England, to continue for some time. </span><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">We here at South Lakes like to do our bit for families, knowing entrance tickets, ice creams, dinner, a souvenir from the gift shop – all adds up. Parents can now “Feed a family of 4 for £15” as they say “Every little helps families” .</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div id="edn2"><div class="MsoEndnoteText"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><blockquote dir="ltr" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; margin-right: 0px;"><span style="font-size: small;">At<span style="color: #3d85c6;"> </span><a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_home.asp" style="color: #3d85c6;">South Lakes Wild Animal Park</a> there is so many fun things to do so when its time to take a break from exploring, drop into the Maki Restaurant for a quick and delicious bite to eat. Savor the selection of freshly made sandwiches, tasty rolls and assorted muffins, pastries and mouth watering cakes. Scrumptious hot meals will satisfy the beastly hunger in adults and children alike. </span></blockquote><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The new <a href="http://filesdown.esecure.co.uk/wildlifepark/2011_menu.pdf_01072011-1347-29.pdf" style="color: #3d85c6;">menu</a> has seen David Gill put a ban on tuna from his restaurant and this was all down to an inspirational pep talk from his nine-year-old son, Hari, who raised money for the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society. The Park used to go through two tonnes of the fish a year.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">“Now, instead of having tuna on a jacket potato, for instance, we’re using chilli. We feed nearly quarter of a million people a year and it’s unbelievable the volume of tuna we were getting through. We want people to realise that when they buy a tin of tuna, they’re potentially killing a dolphin.” ... Full Story <a href="http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/tuna-banned-from-wildlife-park-cafe-1.849534?referrerPath=home" style="color: #3d85c6;">here</a>.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5y-qi2EB7L1vPHXEQv20FhlTBtTp_u_QD18EgSSJjy8mLXi0GYcNNqnb8AuFX36RKrKn26hpmlvM79A8G80Um1mbtVobTd-XS8yHtiyepE4bFN_9u9o0ziw0Dgg5FVVGKDgl16jHLrEgL/s1600/264939_235351153160406_100000565693611_890394_3359050_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="133" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5y-qi2EB7L1vPHXEQv20FhlTBtTp_u_QD18EgSSJjy8mLXi0GYcNNqnb8AuFX36RKrKn26hpmlvM79A8G80Um1mbtVobTd-XS8yHtiyepE4bFN_9u9o0ziw0Dgg5FVVGKDgl16jHLrEgL/s200/264939_235351153160406_100000565693611_890394_3359050_n.jpg" width="200" /></a></span><span style="font-size: small;">Not only has the <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_parkinfo.asp?ID=PIMR" style="color: #3d85c6;">Maki Restaurant</a> seen a new menu it has also been extended with extra indoor space and an extended "treetops" style decking where you can watch Rhinos, Giraffes, baboons at leisure.</span></div>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6619234738276147906.post-60919569205684572292011-06-10T06:06:00.000-07:002011-06-30T04:42:00.567-07:00Meet Willie the Single Siamang Dad<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Arial Black","sans-serif"; font-size: 26pt;"></span></div><div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 20pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 16pt;"></span><br />
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</tbody></table><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Keepers at South Lakes Wild Animal Park pampered one very special Primates this Fathers day. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Meet <a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=INO5" style="color: #0b5394;">Siamang</a> Gibbon “Willie” (pictured) - South Lakes Wild Animal Park’s first single Dad. Since wife Nancy passed away of old age in 2010 Willie has, like lots of dads out there done an amazing job of raising his 2 children singlehandedly. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Pictured here with his youngest – daughter Cayaha, just 18 months old, Willie has been a stay at home dad looking after her and 4 year old handful Indah. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">Willie has taken sole care of the 2 since Cayaha lost her mum at just one month old and like all single parents Willie has had to be teacher, protector, provider, as well as loving, doting dad. </span></div><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: small;">“Willie will be getting some very special treats this coming Fathers day especially his favourite - fruit salad”.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> In honor of Willie and the fantastic job he has done, and jobs fathers do all over the world, South Lakes Wild Animal Park threw their doors open to fathers free of charge Saturday 18<sup>th</sup> & Sunday 19<sup>th</sup> June.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Lots of fathers had a great fun day out at the park, seeing some of the rarest animals on earth and interacting and sharing special moments with the children at the zoo to simply celebrate the essential role Fathers play in their children’s lives.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">For a video of Willie: </span><span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthLakesAnimalPark" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/user/SouthLakesAnimalPark</a></span><br />
<span style="color: #3d85c6; font-size: small;"><span style="color: black;">Or check out our Siamang information page<span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="color: black;"> & fact sheet</span> </span><a href="http://www.wildanimalpark.co.uk/wildlifepark_animals.asp?id=INO5" style="color: #0b5394;"><u>here</u></a>.</span></span>karenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16161909047915841219noreply@blogger.com0