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The UK's #1 safari park! Enter a land of adventure where lions roam, tigers stalk & monkeys swing.

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4 years
Statement from Longleat and the Thynn family.
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2 years
We've been keeping a secret... Please welcome our newest resident! The first ever southern koala born in Europe. More details coming soon.
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2 years
Good luck, @HamzaYassin3 ! All of us here at Longleat are keeping our fingers, toes, claws and paws crossed for a #Strictly win 🤞
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5 years
🐨 Longleat has a new arrival... Burke! A male koala from Osaka Tennoji Zoo who has arrived to join Longleat's Koala breeding programme. 🌏 He was originally born at Melbourne Zoo back in 2006 where he was named Burke, although in Japan he was known and loved as ‘Ark’. 🗾
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11 months
Win 4x Day Tickets to our Sky Safari (for the 8th, 9th or 10th September)! All you have to do is: 🎈 Like this tweet 🎈 Retweet 🎈 Reply with who you’d love to watch our Night Glow with This competition will close on 27th August. Full Ts&Cs here:
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7 years
It is with deep regret and huge sadness that we have to announce the death of Nico, our much-loved western lowland gorilla. Nico passed away in his sleep on 7th January. Our full statement can be found here:
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9 years
Thousands of handmade Chinese lanterns make up this year's spectacular #FestivalofLight , our biggest yet.
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11 months
Win a Lion VIP Experience for two to celebrate Harry’s 11th birthday! 🦁🎂 All you have to do is: 🐾 Like this post 🐾 Repost 🐾 Reply with who you’d take with you to meet Harry This competition will close on 11th September. Full Ts&Cs here:
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5 years
📺 Paws up, who LOVES Burke the koala from today's episode of Animal Park? 🐨 We're sure you'll be happy to know that Burke has now gone into his own brand new enclosure in Koala Creek! 🔗 Don't worry if you miss it, it's available on catch up here:
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1 year
New eyes have opened here at Longleat... 🐨 Lady Bath introduces our newest addition: an adorable little koala joey!
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2 years
We are incredibly excited to introduce our newest addition to Koala Creek! This is such an amazing achievement for our wonderful team of keepers - and parents Violet and Burke, of course. This little cutie is the FIRST southern koala to be born in Europe.
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2 years
We are incredibly sad to share some recent news from the park with you.
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2 years
Baby red panda feeties. You're welcome! 🥰
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1 year
Help us name our adorable little koala joey! 🐨 Our keepers have come up with a list of names for him, but they need your help to decide the best one. Reply to this tweet and type: '1' for Max '2' for Murray '3' for Monty '4' for Marty
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2 years
We have some happy news to share this #InternationalRedPandaDay ... We've recently welcomed two bundles of fluffy joy to Longleat! Meet our two new red panda cubs.
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2 years
Peekaboo! 🐨
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4 years
We are asking as many of you as possible to submit a similar question to this to the gov daily briefings: When uncontrolled outdoor areas and non-essential retail can open, why won’t the Government allow zoos and safari parks to reopen?
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1 year
It is with great sadness that we say goodbye to one of our veteran animal residents - Hippopotamus, Sonia, has passed away peacefully at the grand old age of almost 50. Please do share your favourite Sonia sightings with us and help keep her memory alive.
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5 years
It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our oldest female tiger, Soundari, who has passed away following a long battle with cancer. Soundari was a spectacular individual and will be sadly missed by everyone at the park.
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10 months
A pair of rare red panda cubs have been born here at Longleat this summer. (1/4)
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2 years
Look at this fluffy beaut 😍 Hazel is growing up fast! 📸 Keeper Jon
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5 years
🐯 The cat is out of the bag! 🐯 🐅 A pair of purrrr-fect little Endangered Amur Tiger cubs have been born! With Yana and Red being first time parents and there being a believed global population of around 540 individuals, you can understand why we are feeling fur-tunate! 😁
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2 years
Look! 🥺 This adorable picture of one of our red panda cubs was taken during a health check-up. 📸 Ian Turner
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2 years
It's a girl! 🐨💖 Whilst weighing our koala joey during a health check, we discovered that she is, in fact, a she. Look out for your opportunity to help us name her tomorrow. In the meantime we'll just leave you with these adorable pics...
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7 years
Our little penguin Wall-e is famous! Keep an eye out for him on your TV tonight - this cute humboldt penguin will be making a special appearance on @SupervetNF at 8pm on @Channel4 .
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2 years
It's time to reveal our koala joey's name! Drumroll please... It's Hazel!
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1 year
Look at that little face! 😍 📸 Keeper Jon
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6 months
We are very sad to announce that last week we said goodbye to our hippo, Spot, who died at the age of 49. Longleat was her home for 47 years. She was loved by her keepers and made a big impression with our visitors.
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We're smitten with these shots 😍 Happy Valentine's Day from our beautiful red pandas!
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7 years
Happy #IRPD2017 to our adorable red panda family, Rufina, Ajendra and little Turner! Over the years, we've welcomed four red panda cubs.
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5 years
The Tiger cubs meet their dad, Red! 🐯 How cute is this on the cute factor? 1-100 💯
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2 years
We are sorry to announce that Buster, our much loved male sea lion, has passed away at the grand old age of 26. Here is one of our keepers' favourite videos of him. If you have any pictures or videos to share, please do post them in the replies.
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2 years
We’re delighted to announce that our adorable red panda cubs now have names. Meet Tala & Sumi! Tala is Nepalese for ‘lake’ because they were our first red panda cubs born by Half Mile Pond & Sumi means ‘beautiful’ (no explanation needed) have you seen how gorgeous they are?! 😍
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4 years
Do you think that Keeper Caleb might have taken the most adorable photo of all time? We think this one of Rusty is up there. Got your own 'fearless' cats at home? Share pics of them with us below!
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4 years
We will be re-opening our safari park to visitors on Monday, 15th June! For all the details, head to our website here:
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1 year
Happy Birthday Thorn! 🦒 Thorn very recently turned 22, which makes him the oldest male giraffe in the UK.
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6 years
We recently welcomed FOUR cheetah cubs into the world! It's the largest litter we've had so needless to say we're thrilled that both mum & cubs are doing well. We're hoping that they'll be out on show by the end of the month but we'll let you all know once it's confirmed 😍
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2 years
Mother and daughter 💕 📸 @red_panda_keeper
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4 years
So handsome 😍 🐯 Look at that cheekfluff!
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2 years
Our koala joey is growing up fast! As you can see, this little cutie is getting bigger and fluffier, growing that thick southern koala coat to stay warm outside of mum Violet's pouch.
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2 years
Oh, hello Hazel 🥰 📸 @bethjlamb
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2 years
HAPPY BIRTHDAY HAZEL! 🐨🎉
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5 years
🍃 Burke the Southern Koala is settling in well to Koala Creek at a healthy weight of 9.8kg. Video update coming soon! 📷 Photo by Keeper James
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5 years
🐅 Our two Amur Tiger cubs, Rusty and Yuki have ventured outside for the first time! 🌳 Currently the cubs & mum have access to one of the back paddocks, so you may spot them. However, they still have some more growing up to do yet before you see them running around your cars 🚗
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2 years
This weekend we're raising awareness of the endangered red panda species as part of #InternationalRedPandaDay .  📸 Keeper Sam
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1 year
We're very excited to announce the name of this little cutie! Drumroll please... 🥁 Meet Monty! 🎉 Thank you so much to everyone who voted for a name. Come and see Monty and his family at Koala Creek over Easter.
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2 years
Cuteness overload! 🐨😍 Want to see even more of our adorable koala joey? Of course you do! We're so excited to tell you that we now have a koala cam livefeed so you can see what Violet and her baby get up to. Start watching live here:
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🦍 Nothing to see here... Just some beautiful flowers for our FABULOUS gorillas! 💐 🌼
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🐨 Dennis - Such a handsome chap, give him a thumbs up if you agree (it'll work wonders for his ego!) 🤭
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1 year
Get ready for the cutest photo you'll ever see! Little Monty being weighed 🥺💕
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2 years
What a transformation! Hazel is the first ever southern koala born in Europe, and as you can see, she's growing up fast 💖
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2 years
Just look at how our little koala joey has grown! Our keepers have snapped so many adorable snaps of our newest arrival over the last few months so we thought we'd share some of our favourites. 📸 Keepers Sam, Jon, Tyler and Ian
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😍 Aren't they just the cutest? 🐅 The Tiger cubs are still transitioning to being outside and it may be some time yet until they are outside fully. As such we cannot guarantee they'll be in the Drive through but it is possible!
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6 years
This #NationalCatDay , we wanted to show you a little glimpse of our adorable cheetah cubs at just eight weeks old 😻 We're pleased to let you know that mum and cubs are doing brilliantly!
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4 years
🦒 Hello? Is it meeeee you're looking for? 📸 Photo by keeper Ryan
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2 years
The park will be back open from tomorrow (Tues 22nd)! There's loads to come and see, including our famous Safari Drive-through. Don't forget to drop by Koala Creek to see if you can see our koala joey. Pre-booking is essential: 📸 Keeper Sam
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2 years
Animal Park starts TOMORROW! Tune into @BBCOne at 9:15am to catch the first episode of an all-new series with @BenFogle , @KateHumble , @HamzaYassin3 and @MeganMcCubbin . Paws up if you're excited 🙋 #AnimalPark
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2 years
Nothing could ever dampen this cuteness 😍
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2 years
In today's #AnimalPark , you saw the moment our keepers found out that Hazel was a little girl. We couldn't resist sharing some photos from when we first weighed Hazel - she's just too cute! 😍
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5 years
Sniff! Sniff! 😍 We may be a little biased but something tells us you're going to fall in love with Squash and Pumpkin, our prehensile-tailed porcupines, who are some of our latest arrivals to Longleat! 📷 Photos by Keepers Sam & Rach
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2 years
Wishing Dennis a happy birthday brimming with eucalyptus! 🐨 Dennis arrived here at Longleat four years ago and is the youngest male we have at Koala Creek. Though today is all about Dennis, he shares his birthday month with two of our other southern koalas, Maizie and Violet.
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5 years
🐯 You might've already seen but we have two of the cutest new additions! 😍
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4 years
Isolation, but make it fashion. 📸 Keeper James 🐨 Dennis 🌳 Model's own
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5 years
🐺 Every time Longleat's fire alarm is tested, something astonishing can happen... 😍
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1 year
Happy Father's Day! We're celebrating the dad of the first two southern koala joeys born in Europe, right here at Longleat... the one and only Burke 🐨
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1 year
Prepare yourself for the most adorable babies... Meet our sweet new sea lion pups 🦭 These cuties have just been born to Roo and Belle, who are both first-time mums also born here at Longleat.
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2 years
Something every parent can relate to... 😜 Don't forget to catch up with Violet and her little joey on the Koala Cam live feed here:
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4 years
🐅 We can't get enough of Keeper Caleb's shots of our majestic tigers 😍
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2 years
The cutest blep EVER 😍 📸 Keeper Ryan
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1 month
What a difference a few weeks make 😍   As you can see, our two fennec fox kits have found their feet (and ears)!
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4 years
📺 IT'S BACK! Animal Park is back from Monday 17th August, weekdays at 10am on BBC One. 🎉 That's right, celebrating 20 years of Ben Fogle & Kate Humble this year at Longleat. Who are you excited to hear about? 🦁 🐅 🦒 🐨 🦏 🐦
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4 years
🐨 Southern koalas are fantastic animals and with the most recent bushfire disaster to their natural habitats, learning about them is more important than ever. 👨 Keeper Jon explains some fun facts about southern koalas. From two thumbs to their love of eucalyptus!
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If you've ever wondered how the first southern koala born in Europe is doing... here's Hazel now 🐨❤️ 📸 Keeper Jon
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A little glimpse into yesterday's spectacular scenes with our Amur tiger mother and daughter duo, Yana and Yuki 🐯❄️
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4 years
🦁 Calling all Annual Pass holders🦁 We've been closed for longer than we’d hoped, so we’re upping our initial 90 day extension to your passes to up to 5 months. You don't have to do anything, it'll happen automatically. We're grateful for your ongoing support & we miss you all.
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2 years
It is with deep regret that we announce that Evindi, one of our lowland gorillas, has passed away.
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2 months
One of the cutest faces in existence. Fact.
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5 years
🐯 It seems Rusty & Yuki have been taking some inspiration from our very own Emma, Viscountess Weymouth on @bbcstrictly 💃
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Misty mornings at Longleat 🦁
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3 years
🐨 Craving a marsupial update? Join us for KOALA WEIGHING ⚖️ We caught up with Keeper James as they carried out their routine koala weighing which can look quite unique!
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4 years
Happy Halloween from Longleat! 🎃 🦁 🐯
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5 years
🌏 So we're sure you've probably seen the horrific scenes of the ongoing Australian wildfires recently. The effect these devastating bushfires have had on wildlife has hit us hard. In response, Longleat is taking several actions in support of the crisis:
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🐨 Burke is a very popular koala and we've been keen to share with our friends in Japan how he's been getting on Lead Keeper Jon tells us more about how Burke is getting on with Violet and how Koala Creek has been during lockdown 📺 Watch our update here
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4 years
📺 It's been a fantastic summer series with Animal Park. Who has been your favourite animals to catch up on?
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Blowing kisses 😘
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4 years
Oh hi Baloo! 👋😊
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3 years
You've been spotted... 👀 🐯 📷 by Keeper Caleb
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2 years
Here's a clip from this morning's Instagram Live with Keeper Jon, Keeper James, and our newest addition to Koala Creek! Conservation is a hugely important part of what we do here at Longleat, so it was wonderful to have the opportunity to share what this little joey means to us.
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2 years
Happy Mother's Day! Today we're celebrating all the mums at the Park, but especially our newest mum, Violet the koala. 🐨 She gave birth late last year and became the first southern koala mum in Europe!
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4 years
🦒 Anyone else falling in love with our giraffes all over again after seeing this? 📸 Got some of your own majestic pics from the park? Share them with us below! 📸 Keeper Darren
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6 years
After today's episode of #AnimalPark brought news of Nico's passing to TV fans, you may be wondering what we have in store for his iconic home on the Half-Mile Lake. Keep an eye out for updates soon 🐒 In the meantime, here are some of our best photos of him - we miss you, Nico
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Tomorrow we'll be chatting to Keeper Jon and Keeper James on Instagram about our adorable bundle of koala joy at Koala Creek! We'll be going live at 9.30am, so make sure to turn on your Instagram notifications to get a reminder: 📸 Keeper Jon
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4 years
We're still closed but what a beautiful time of year the cold can bring to the park ❄️
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3 years
We are sad to announce that we have to say goodbye to our famous group of timber wolves at the park. Alf, our last remaining timber wolf, passed away earlier this week at the grand old age of 13 years old.
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4 years
🐯 Can you believe it's been over a year since they were this small?? ...we may need a few more leaves this time 🍂 🤭
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2 years
Here's your chance to help us name our koala joey! Our keepers have thought of some beautiful names for her and now we need your help to choose the very best one: P.S. Anyone who takes part will also be in with a chance to win a Koala VIP Experience 🐨
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3 years
We're aware that our beloved Anne the elephant is once again in the public spotlight. We wanted to address some of the inaccuracies & untruths that are being widely shared. Please see below plus facts about her care are here:
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4 years
🎶 Caaan you feeel the love tonight 🎶 📹 Keeper Kayleigh
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