Highland Wildlife Park
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The Highland Wildlife Park is a safari park and zoo near Kingussie, Highland, Scotland. The park is in the Cairngorms National Park.
The Highland Wildlife Park was opened in 1972 and has been run by the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland since 1986. Visitors experience Scottish wildlife past and present in the spectacular setting of the Scottish Highlands. On show are a variety of animals found in present day Scotland, as well as animals that were once present, hundreds, even thousands of years ago. Visitors drive around the Main Reserve in their cars and then move on to a walk-round area.
The enclosure home to a pack of Grey Wolf won the ZooLex award in 2003 for having a leading design for their wolf territory, which offers extensive areas for them to inhabit and views of the Cairngorms where wild wolves would have roamed until as recently as the 1700s.
The park is open every day of the year, weather permitting.
In 1980 the park was made famous by obtaining "Felicity the Puma", a Puma that was reputedly captured nearby by a farmer. The puma lived out her days in the park and is now on show stuffed in the Inverness museum.
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[edit] Animals
[edit] Main reserve (safari park)
- European Bison
- Highland Cattle
- Przewalski's Horse
- Highland Cattle
- Soay Sheep
- Mouflon
- Red Deer
- Reindeer
[edit] Walk-round enclosures
- Forest habitat:
- Animals of the past:
- Eurasian Lynx
- Chough
- Grey Wolf
- Forest Reindeer
- Wild Boar
- Moorland habitat
- Tundra habitat
- Wetland habitat
- Woodland habitat
