Zoo visits

[rose2008-2008]

Just interested to know if anyone has done any of those visits to an Animal park where you can go behind the scenes and see the animals. I know you have to pay but i am interested in going and seeing the Giraffes as they are a favourite animal of mine. I have Port Lympne nearby in Folkstone and know they do it there. i know you can also be a zoo keeper for a day, ohhhh exciting but just to be a bit closer to these great creatures would be oh so exciting i think. They are so gorgeous and elegant and when they run its like in slow motion. They are truly Beautiful!!!. 

[cookiecookuk]

i like giraffes to but my ideal would be to look after chimps or baby orangatangs  for the day or week.i love monkeys

[ed_blackadder_1]

We went to longleat a couple of times when my son was younger and I think they do that sometimes, I think I remember them running a competition.

My personal favourite is the Tiger, or Birds of Prey.

[ginap.123]

We're going to Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne Herts to spend a day with the meercats on 26th Sept

[rose2008-2008]

YAYYYYYYY sounds good keep it comin ooohhhhh i love ANIMALS ((())):catsurprised:

[captainbovine]

I bet Stan would love to go with you, giraffes being her best friends too!

[rose2008-2008]

Ohhhhhh yes i thought of that Captain. I do REALLY LOVE them, id have one in my garden if i had one and i had a couple of acres.   GIRAFFE love xxxxxxxx  ((())) 

[bitsnknots]

I live about three miles away from a safari park which has been open for about 20 years.  I've never been yet but I'd love to go.  Don't know if they have giraffes though.

[bitsnknots]

Just checked our safari park's website and they do have giraffes amongst other things.

[wskneil]

The Yorkshire Wildlife Park is not far from me. While working in a local pharmacy one of the women there said her house backed onto the park, and on a sunny evening she could sit on her patio with a G&T and listen to the lions.I want to live i her house!

[fishpieface]

They do that keeper for the day thing at Colchester Zoo and I think you can choose

from a selection of animals which you would like to get up close and personal with.

I like giraffes too and was watching them being fed at Colchester a few months ago.

I was amazed at how long their tongues are, they seem to go on forever!

[rose2008-2008]

Yesssss and they eat those tree things with the big spikes on the branches as apparently their tongues are like armour plated although you would never think that. I think i said before i would love to go that hotel Treetops in Africa where they stick their heads right in the verandah windows when your having breakfast or whatever ha ha ha. I think thats so COOL. 

[*elphaba*]

My dad was a keeper for a day at Colchester zoo 🙂

He had the most amazing time - in with meerkats, porcupines (he came home with a fistful of quills) and elephants and the reptile section which he specialises in at home.  

He came home absolutely bursting with memories and excitement; and given he is a knowledgable person who was able to really test the keepers he was thrilled at their care of their animals and larger conservation work.  

He considers it a great day, well worth doing.  I think that anything that ignites a love of endangered and indigenous wildlife a must-have :_ 

[rose2008-2008]

ohhhh this sounds a great must do!!!!! for me ha ha ha LOL. Im 50 next year it will be an adventure for then lol,lol,((())).