| Chip and Orvus |
Chip is home (but off-exhibit), living
with Orvus the hand-reared otter. Chip used to be very tubby
but was dieted and ended up with his skin settling round him when he
sits down like a hovercraft skirt. Chip also has a fat tail
like many elderly otters. |
16/08/04 |
21K |
| Orvus (in front) and Chip in the maximum
security Twilight Home! |
16/08/04 |
39K |
| The Canadians |
Giggsy, the old male North American
River Otter, named after Ryan Giggs, the footballer. He is
Digger's mate. They are quite elderly and supposed to have
given up breeding but at the time that this was taken, they had a
year-old cub called Canuck who now lives at the Chestnut Centre |
Autumn 2000 |
18K |
| Digger and the twins, born unexpectedly
in Spring 2002. |
20/07/02 |
27K |
| In the Greenhouse and Night
Barn |
Fizzy and Feather with their
family. The youngest baby otters are suckling |
16/08/04 |
27K |
| Mork and Aonyx |
16/08/04 |
43K |
| The Ferret Pen |
20/07/02 |
22K |
| The Hedgehog Pen where three blind
hedgehogs hurt in road traffic accidents live. |
04/04/04 |
36K |
| Some of the ferrets in the Night Barn. |
10/03/01 |
6K |
| True Polecats are the wild ancestors of
Ferrets |
Autumn 2000 |
25K |
| Behind the Greenhouse |
Echo, who lives with his brother
Tallisker. They are male Eurasian Otters. |
Autumn 2000 |
26K |
| The Deer Walk |
The Snowy Owls. The female, Hördi,
is the greyer one, for camouflage when nesting, whereas the male is
white. When Hördi lost her mate, she was very choosy about
his successor and it took a long time to find this one, who she will
accept. |
04/04/04 |
19K |
| The Swamp, an attractive wetland in the
centre of the park, where the deer wallow. In season,
interesting fungi grow here. |
16/08/04 |
65K |
| Sam the deer, who was brought up with
labradors and thinks he is a dog. Sam will eat anything and
everything that people eat and steals crisps, sandwiches and fruit
from visitors. |
Autumn 2001 |
23K |
| Verreaux's or Milky Eagle Owls.
During the breeding season, they have striking pink eyelids. |
19/02/01 |
47K |
| Wallaby Wood |
Oden the Lynx, who came as a retired
animal from Chester Zoo, and goes from strength to strength. He has
a little arthritis in his back legs, for which he receives
medication in his food. His pen is huge, with lots of viewing
points. He leaps from the viewing points to the roof of
his shed and has caught numerous magpies and squirrels to
supplement his diet! |
19/02/01 |
53K |
| Red-Necked Wallaby; there are
long-established colonies of these living wild in the Peak District
and on the Sinodun Hills. |
19/02/01 |
55K |
| The Wild Boar |
16/08/04 |
40K |
| The Muntjac |
16/08/04 |
39K |
| The Great Grey Owls |
Autumn 2000 |
21K |
