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News Archive
Below are the news reports for Highland Wildlife Park, covering significant events concerning the animal collection, such as births, arrivals, departures, and deaths.
Highland Wildlife Park Details
Birth: Summer 2010
Other births so far this year include: 2 Mishmi Takin, Bukhara Deer and Red Deer.
Birth: June 2010
A Scottish Wildcat kitten has been born.
Birth: May 2010
Twin European Elk calves have been born, to mum Lisa.
Birth: April 2010
A baby female Snow Monkey called Bishoujo has been born, the second birth at the park since the Snow Monkeys arrived three years ago.
Death: January 2010
The female European Otter has sadly had to be put to sleep. She was very old and had been suffering from ill health for several weeks.
Arrival: 19 October 2009
Mercedes the Polar Bear has arrived from Edinburgh Zoo, and has taken up residence in her huge new 4 acre enclosure.
It is hoped that a male Polar Bear will also eventually join her at the park, but will be kept in a separate, similarly large enclosure; Polar Bears are solitary animals in the wild.
It is also the intention that, when Mercedes eventually dies, she will be replaced by another female, who will then be introduced to the male only during the breeding seasons, replicating the bear's natural behaviour in the wild.
Birth: 11 May 2009
Three Tiger cubs have been born: one male, Vlacimir, and two females, Natalia and Dominika.
Arrival: May 2009
Bactrian Camels have arrived from Edinburgh Zoo, and should be on show within a few weeks.
Birth: Spring 2009
Spring births so far include two baby Japanese Snow Monkeys, a European Elk calf and a Bison calf.
Depart: Spring 2009
Three Wolves have been moved to Edinburgh Zoo. The remaining male has been joined by a female from the Scottish Deer Centre to form a new breeding pair.
Arrival: February 2009
A group of Japanese Serow (a type of small goat-antelope) have arrived from Edinburgh Zoo, to take up residence with the Japanese Macaques.
Arrival: October 2008
Sasha and Yuri the Amur Tigers have arrived from Edinburgh Zoo.
Birth: October 2008
Two Mishmi Takin calves have been born.
Birth: Summer 2008
A total of five Scottish Wildcat kittens have been born, in two litters (of 2 and 3) to two different mothers.
Birth: June 2008
Spring births include: 4 Przewalski foals, 4 Markhor lambs, 1 Urial lamb, and a second Mishmi Takin calf. The Red Deer herd has also started to calf.
Arrival: April 2008
Five female European Forest Reindeer and three Elk have arrived.
Birth: 22 March 2008
A baby Mishmi Takin has been born, to mother Cava. Four more of this unusual and endangered species have also arrived from Germany and Latvia.
Arrival: February 2008
A pair of Red Pandas have arrived from Edinburgh Zoo.
Arrival: February 2008
Two young male Carpathian Lynx have arrived from Chemnitz Zoo, Germany.
Arrival: February 2008
The second group of Japanese Snow Monkeys have arrived and, after an initial period of scrapping to sort out the hierarchy, appear to have settled in.
Arrival: January 2008
More Turkmenian Markhor and Kiang have arrived.
Arrival: January 2008
A group of Mashmi Takin have arrived from Edinburgh Zoo. These animals look like a cross between a Wildebeest, Bison and Moose, and are endangered in the wild due to habitat loss.
Arrival: January 2008
A male Elk has arrived, to join the existing female, Lisa.
Arrival: January 2008
A group of Afghan Urials, a rare type of wild sheep, have arrived
Arrival: January 2008
A group of Himalayan Tahr (similar to a wild goat) have arrived.
Arrival: October 2007
A group of Bukhara Deer (Bactrian Wapiti) have arrived.
Arrival: July 2007
The first group of Japanese Snow Monkeys have now arrived, and will be joined over the coming months by two further groups to bring the total up to around thirty.
Depart: June 2007
The Red Foxes, Soay Sheep, and Highland cow have moved to the Scottish Deer Centre in Fife.
Arrival: June 2007
Turkmenian Markhor and Kiang (Tibetan wild ass) have arrived.
Arrival: April 2007
Four domestic Yak have arrived.
Arrival: April 2007
More European Forest Reindeer have arrived, to join the existing bachelor group started last year.
Depart: March 2007
The badgers have been moved to the British Wildlife Centre near Gatwick, to join 3 young males there.
Birth: March 2007
Both Wild Boar sows have given birth to piglets that are all doing well.
Arrival: February 2007
Two young Bharals (Himalayan Blue Sheep), called `Blue' and `Jacob' have arrived, from Liberec Zoo in the Czech Republic.
Arrival: January 2007
A female otter has arrived from Blackpool Zoo to join the existing male.
Arrival: December 2006
Six male Reindeer have arrived from Blackpool Zoo, to join the existing herd of five in the main reserve.
Depart: September 2006
Two young Przewalski Horse colts, born at the Parks in 2005, have left to start a bachelor herd at Cricket St. Thomas Wildlife Park.
Arrival: April 2006
Four male European Forest Reindeer have arrived from Scandinavia, to form a bachelor group as part of a conservation breeding programme..
Notes:
Where possible, the dates given are for the event itself, but some zoos do not make this information available, when the date of announcement is used instead.
Seasons: Winter = Jan - Mar, Spring = Apr - Jun, Summer = Jul - Sept, Autumn = Oct - Dec.
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