My family bought Dartmoor Zoo in 2006. I wrote a book called We Bought A Zoo which was made into a film by Cameron Crowe starring Matt Damon
Dartmoor, Devon
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It costs £65 an hour 24 hours a day for PAPYRUS to take 75,000 calls a year from young people in distress. I’m sponsoring Team 22, raising £22,000 by walking 22 miles on 25th May in memory of Darcy, who would have been 22. #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek justgiving.com/team/diddles?…
How many Amur leopards in this photo? 0.5% of the total global population. It took many years, many members of staff and many generous sponsors to bring Fredo from @Bellewaerde and Lena from @ColchesterZoo together @dartmoorzoo And they’re getting along perfectly #reintroduction
In non election news, some otter love @dartmoorzoo captured by the awesome Evie Gotham.
Primate enrichment in the cheetah enclosure @DartmoorZoo Thanks to @HMLandRegistry and Grow4GoodSW dartmoorzoo.org.uk/wellbeing…
As bird flu inches ever closer we’ve had to round up the free roaming peacocks @DartmoorZoo into fine-meshed aviaries for their own protection. Mummy peahen comforts baby while they adjust to their new surroundings
Jasiri, bored in black and white, captured by the multitalented @EGotham @DartmoorZoo – at South West, England
Baby capybara eat 4% of their bodyweight a day, so enrichment has to be food based. Hence the homegrown bamboo carousel and the happy capys @DartmoorZoo
Which of these pieces of garden furniture was made entirely from Quality Street tubs? @dcw_uk geniuses turn 938 tubs into 1 bench, to stop them going into landfill. 1 bench also = 0.59 metric tonnes of chocolate eaten, about average for me over Christmas dcw.co.uk/about/recycle-rais…
Amazing staff day out @noahs_ark_zoo this week. Lovely people and animals. Highlight was this 60 year old critter coming over for a cuddle.
Dolphins off Plymouth Hoe this evening, very close to where I was swimming moments before. Clearly forming a defensive barrier against all the sharks for us. Thanks guys. – at South West, England
As well as animal dentist Peter Kertesz and Steve from IZVG, 26 people attended the morning briefing. A necessary extraction of a broken canine from Chincha the jaguar, which cost around £7000. Every ice cream and toy bought @DartmoorZoo pays for these sorts of unseen activities.
A rare sighting of one of the incredibly shy Dik Diks in the new mixed aviary @DartmoorZoo . If you looked this much like dinner for something else, you’d be shy too.