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Askham Bryan Wildlife Park @ABCWildPark

Askham Bryan Wildlife and Conservation Park

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Our off-show amphibian and invertebrate room has had a face lift! We're excited to announce that we will be opening this room at select times during public opening times to show off our wonderful collection and answer visitor questions. 🦎🐸
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⭐️ Online Lecture: 2nd February 2022! In this guest lecture, Anne will be giving an overview of the Freshwater Habitats Trust's work, including their exciting medicinal leech recovery project that the Wildlife Park is partnering with this Spring! Image Copyright: Neil Phillips
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Our gift shop has had a bit of a refurbishment! 😍 We're slowly achieving our goal of becoming a sustainable gift shop - almost all of the products on these shelves are made from recycled materials! Isn't that green?! ✅
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After a long period of being off-show, our leopard tortoises are now on display in our new Animal Training & Enrichment Academy! They share a house with our giant sulcata tortoises! The Academy is now accessable on weekends to Wildlife Park visitors. 🐢
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Hedgehogs hibernate from November through to March/April. During hibernation hedgehogs are not really asleep, instead they drop their body temperature to match their surroundings and enter a state of torpor.
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Our popular three day Wildlife Academy for 8-11 year old's and 12-15 year old's is back this February half-term! We've also added a new flexible and affordable one day course focusing on mammals for 8-11's, 12-15's and 16-18 year old. For more information, check out our website!
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ONLINE GUEST LECTURE: TONIGHT! Our very own Wildlife Park manager Lauren will be discussing some of the park's ongoing developments and future plans tonight! For more information, and the link to watch, click here: abcwildlifepark.co.uk/whats-…
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‼Visitor Notice‼ Thank you to everyone who has visited us over the Christmas Holidays! We'd like to remind everyone that, beginning tomorrow, we are CLOSED on weekdays moving forward. We are still open on weekends throughout January.
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1 Jan 2022
Wishing you all a happy and healthy new year 🎉
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Happy New Year's Eve! We'd like to take a moment to thank all our staff, students and visitors for their support during this challenging year! The Wildlife Park has continued to move forward in leaps and bounds this year. We wish you all a safe and happy New Year!
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Happy Birthday Smartie! Our male Asian short-clawed otter Smartie is turning 10 years old today! Help us wish him a happy birthday by commenting below and sharing your best photos our our handsome chap!
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We hope you had a wonderful Christmas! 🎁 Looking for a COVID-safe attraction to visit with the family during the Christmas break? We're open Monday (27th) through to Friday (31st) next week! More information on our opening times can be found here: abcwildlifepark.co.uk/visito…
The entire team at Askham Bryan Wildlife & Conservation Park would like to wish our followers a wonderful a very Merry Christmas! We hope your day was full of festivity and cheer! 🐐🎅
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It's Christmas Eve's Eve! Want to get one last wildlife park fix before Christmas? We're open tomorrow from 10:00AM to 15:00PM, last entry 14:00PM!
Looking for a unique experience on the run up to Christmas? We have availability for our one hour Animal Encounter Experiences this upcoming week (Monday 20th-Thursday 23rd). These are available on a first come basis - to book, click here: abcwildlifepark.co.uk/animal…
We're open now every day until January 3rd, excluding Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day! Our new Animal Training Academy is open for sneak-peak previews too throughout the Christmas break! Our opening times can be found here: abcwildlifepark.co.uk/visito…
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This weekend is our final Very Merry Christmas Parade - we still have a very limited number of golden tickets available. For more information and to book, click here: abcwildlifepark.co.uk/whats-…
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Our giant tortoises have moved home! 🐢➡️ Our group of sulcata tortoises have moved to their new home in the Animal Training & Enrichment Academy! We can't wait to show off their new enclosure to our visitors!
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Still looking for the perfect 'animal lover' gift? Our animal adoption packs are an excellent way to help support our wildlife park while providing someone with a unique gift - each adoption pack even includes two free entry tickets. Adoption can be bought via our website!
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We have a new carnivorous plant exhibit on our Wildlife of the World corridor! Carnivorous plants are found in bogs and wetlands - soil nutrients are often lacking in these habitats, so they get their nutritional requirements from insects!
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