Visit to the Highland Wildlife Park! What a wonderful place, I had such a good day out. The park is fantastic, with some of the biggest and most natural feeling enclosures of any zoo I've been to. It helped that it was good weather, and the backdrop of the Cairngorms was stunning.
I love the theme of this park- animals native or once native to the Scottish Highlands and animals from similar environments elsewhere.
The highlights of the trip was definitely the takin, wolverines and the snow leopard cubs. The Arctic Foxes were very cute too! Oh, and POLAR BEARS!!
I got some pretty good shots of the tigers this time, or at least specifically of Botzman and his son Aleksander. It was their turn to be in the main enclosure while Dominika and the two female cubs were in the off-show den.
I'm rather fond of Botzman. He's quite a gentle tiger - I'm not saying I'd want to climb into the enclosure with him, but he's very chill with the cubs and - according to a keeper I spoke to - actually better at parenting than Dominika. That's him in the last photo; you can see he's got a distinctive sort of 'golf club' stripe above his right eye.
Parks Canada, the world’s first national park service, was established as the Dominion Parks Branch under the Department of the Interior on May 19, 1911.
"Five critically endangered Scottish wildcat kittens have been born at the Highland Wildlife Park. Keepers have said they are doing 'extremely well' and are 'getting more confident' every day"