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Peak Wildlife Park - Winkhill
Get up-close and personal with three brand new immersive animal walk-throughs. Inspire your kids and let them come face to face with lemurs, penguins, wallabies and much more! Our large walkthroughs allow you to come face to face with exotic and endangered animals from across three continents. Whether you love lemurs, have a passion for penguins...
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Gentleshaw Wildlife Centre
Gentleshaw Wildlife centre is a small sanctuary for exotic animals and birds of prey. As well as a hospital unit for the treatment of wild raptors (Not on display), the centre is home to over 30 different species of Bird of prey, Primate, Reptile, Invertebrate, Raccoons, Cats and many more. . Our mission statement is to provide at all times the...
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Drayton Manor Park - Tamworth
Drayton Manor Family Theme Park is one of the oldest parks in the country where families can enjoy a day of excitement and adventure. Originally billed fifty years ago, in 1949, by George Bryan as an 'Inland Pleasure Resort', the park is still to this day 'Family Run for Family Fun'. With loads of fantastic rides to keep you thrilled throughout...
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Yorkshire Wildlife Park
Walk through natural habitats and encounter animals from all over the world. Also a woodlands nature trail. See marsupials, antelopes, zebra, ostrich and lemurs, anteater. There's family fun all day long with our walkthrough safari animal areas, a full programme of ranger talks and feeding time, indoor and outdoor play areas, cafes and shops in...
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Twycross Zoo - Atherstone
Twycross Zoo is now renowned as a World Primate Centre and has a wide variety of monkeys and apes including the UK’s only group of bonobos. We have breeding groups of many endangered primate species so we often have babies and toddlers playing around in our great ape groups, and in many of our monkey groups. We also hold a range of other...
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Dudley Zoo & Castle
Have a great day out at Dudley Zoo with some of the rarest and most exotic creaures from all over the world, They have togers, lemurs( funny furry animals) lions and penguins to name but a few. They have lots of other stuff going on as well please check their events calendar. As a Charity we rely upon donations from our visitors to support our...
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Birmingham Wildlife Conservation Park
Located on Pershore Road, two miles south of Birmingham City Centre, the Birmingham Nature Centre homes a wide range of animals, both European and from across the world. These animals include many charismatic and exciting species like Red Pandas, Meerkats, Lemurs and Otters. The centre has a wide collection of endangered reptiles, and it plays an...
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This section lists zoos in Derbyshire so if you would like to take the little monkeys to the zoo please see our list below. Some of the zoos listed maybe farms, or petting farms, these zoos have a varied selection of animals for viewing. there are lions and you can sometimes drive through the paddocks and view them from the comfort of your car. there are also baboons and monkeys which can be fun to watch. Or there are elephants, giraffes and other African and Indian animals. A lot of zoos have collections of insects and birds and also water creatures, all in all a trip out to the zoo is an educational experience for your children.
If you are living in the Derbyshire vicinity and you are planning for a fun day trip then why don't you take the loved ones to the nearest zoo. With so much to discover and do, a visit to the zoo will be the ideal day trip for people of all ages. From Grandad to grandchildren, aunts and uncles, a day trip to the zoo is great fun for all of the house. A trip to your local zoo close to Derbyshire is both equally helpful and useful, and can leave you having a lasting impact. The wildlife on show will include a lot of kinds of uncommon, unique and protected wild animals. Getting close up to one of the larger animals for example , rhinoceros or giraffes is an outstanding encounter. You will find a lot of varied types of birds to view at a zoo for instance owls and waterfowl. Various zoos have a reptile building so you can see wildlife like highly dangerous snakes like cobras. A wide variety of mammals will be on exhibit for example big cats and otters. From the streams as well as ponds of our earth there are plenty of amazing fish to see including unicorn fish. Varied and amazing underwater life for example coral are definitely fantastic to view. Amphibians for example frogs are usually fascinating for young children of all ages to study. A zoo is actually a place where living wildlife are housed to be displayed and studied. The name is actually a well-known type of zoological garden, and most zoos are gardens or recreational areas containing buildings as well as various other enclosures. Zoos normally keep only untamed wildlife, many of them from remote nations around the world. However, a number of zoos house indigenous wildlife such as cows and lambs to display to city little ones who have no opportunity to pay a visit to farms. Children's zoos are in some cases included in zoological gardens. They may possibly have nurseries where kids can observe small wildlife, and sometimes now have areas where young children may pet as well as feed tame wildlife. Zoos are also crucial centres of wildlife preservation. Many zoos breed protected animals, several of that are no longer found in the wild.