Visitors to Flamingo Land can get closer than ever before to our lemurs now their new walkthrough enclosure is open.

Our existing lemur enclosure has been modified so that the public can now walk through it instead of only being able to view from the paths outside. This allows people to encounter the lemurs at a much closer range. It also means that you can get photos of them without a fence in the picture. Our wallaby enclosure was converted to a walkthrough earlier in the year and has proved extremely popular with visitors this summer. So, we hope this will be just as successful.

Summer visitors to Flamingo Land have been enjoying the sight of hundreds of colourful rhinos amongst the trees

Sadly, they’re not real ones. Instead they’re the work of hundreds of children who’ve visited Flamingo Land this summer and taken part in our Ready for Rhinos event, aimed at getting Flamingo Land ready for the arrival of our new Indian rhinos.

Our latest arrival at Flamingo Land is an adult male white-crowned mangabey named Paddy.

Visitors can see him settling into his new home in the mangabey enclosure, in between the tiger and zebra enclosures. Paddy has joined our two resident female mangabeys, Calpurnia and her daughter Sophia.

Calling all wildlife enthusiasts! Flamingo Land is holding a BioBlitz from Friday 20th to Saturday 21st September and we want you to join in.

You don’t have to be an expert on British wildlife or have any equipment – you just need to come along and use your eyes and ears to help us spot as many species of wildlife as possible around the park.

Children’s Planet is home to a range of mammal and reptile species. This includes the South American coati, found is Venezuela, Columbia, Uruguay and Argentina.

These are closely related to racoons, therefore resembles them by having a stripey tail and long snout. Coati’s fur is a slightly reddish colour with lighter patches around its face. When foraging it often holds its tail in the air allowing other coatis in the group to be able to distinguish each other. Despite looking fairly cute and fluffy, it is able to eat animals such as scorpions, spiders and tarantulas, in addition to a variety of food and seeds.

Flamingo Land is pleased to announce the birth of yet another baby!

A male scimitar-horned oryx was born five weeks ago in the zoo. He has been born into our collection of six females, which should be being joined by a new breeding male shortly. The young oryx will stay with his mum and rely on her for about the first 14 weeks of his life.

With over 140 species of reptiles, mammals and birds, new arrivals are a familiar attraction at Flamingo Land.

However, our baby Hamadryas baboons have achieved superstar status, drawing masses of interest from visitors of all ages. Born between April and July, the five infants – who are yet to be named – rapidly became an integral part of our existing baboon family.

Flamingo Land is currently renovating the old mangabey and bat house into our new Indian Rhino exhibit. The building has been extended and improved, and fixtures are now being fitted to accommodate our new residents.

The Rhino should be arriving towards the end of the summer or early autumn. This will be an exciting time for all our zoo staff and the visitors to the park too. Although we already have White Rhino at Flamingo Land, the Indian Rhino will be kept in a completely separate enclosure to them.

For visitors with nerves of steel, Cliff Hanger was created especially for you! Experience the sheer exhilaration of a missile launch combined with BASE-jumping all in a single, spectacular ride.

Become a high-flying sky pilot and take your helicopter on a journey of adventure through the clouds.

A truly monster attraction, Dino-Stone Park creates a journey into a world that’s been lost in the mists of time.

Get behind the wheel of your very own Model T Ford for a trip through the grounds of Mischief Manor!

With so much on offer at Flamingo Land, we appreciate that our guests often have questions to ask. You are always welcome to contact us directly, but here are the answers to some of our most frequent enquiries.

Efforts to conserve forests are not so different across the world…

Last month saw three key events take place that we hope will help the Udzungwa Forests on their way to recovery…

A massive thank you to everyone who attended our annual Christmas fundraiser!

The day began rather poorly as the coach bearing 30 students and staff from the University of York turned up in the pouring rain for their pre-fundraiser tour around the zoo. Most of the animals were sheltering from the rain, except of course for the penguins, who did a great job in entertaining us all with their acrobatics…

At the zoo we are lucky to have several free-roaming Indian blue peafowl, more commonly known as peacocks and peahens.

The males (peacocks), with their striking tails, are not only beautiful, but also illustrate a fascinating result of thousands of years of evolution known to scientists as “Fisherian runaway selection”. This peculiar form of evolution is named after the Victorian biologist Ronald Fisher, and is used to describe a feature of an animal (in this case, the male peacock’s tail) that has evolved to increase the chance of finding a partner, but is actually a huge burden on the animal…

As the weather turns colder, the otters at the zoo are keeping warm this Christmas!

Our Asian short-clawed otters, Aonyx cinerea, tend to stay indoors during the winter, in their heated enclosure. However, like all mammals, their fur reacts to the cold, trapping warm air close to their skin. Otters also have two layers of fur, one for insulation and one to keep the water out. This layer of fur makes them look cuddly, but they have sharp teeth and claws, which equip them for hunting fish, and even snakes and rats…

This December has seen a number of new arrivals at the zoo, including two rhinos, an ostrich, and also three scimitar-horned oryx on their way.

These animals are arriving as part of Flamingo Land’s membership of international conservation breeding programmes. Breeding animals in captivity is required to maintain captive population numbers, and also to keep the genetic diversity as varied as possible…

As you may know, giraffes have their long necks in order to reach leaves that grow on tall trees. In the wild these animals can eat up to 11 kilograms of leaves per day, moving between trees when one runs out of leaves. But what do our giraffes do?

As they are zoo animals we can’t let them out to go and find trees. Our answer to this problem is to bring the trees to them…