Baby Bats In Time For Halloween!

Greetings friends and welcome to this week’s blog post! We are in full swing for the fall, pumpkins and all! We’re so batty that we are giving away a free pumpkin with the purchase of a Child’s Fall Combo Ticket. That’s right, while supplies last, if you purchase and redeem a Child’s combo ticket she or he will receive a free pumpkin to carve up for Halloween. Speaking of bats, we have some exciting news from the world of our straw coloured fruit bats.

At first glance, the picture from this blog is probably quite unassuming. If you look closely though you can see that both mama bats on the left and the right are holding their young. Yep, we have baby bats!  Baby bats are called “pups.” Pups will nurse for about 6 months before weaning.

A mother bat usually will only give birth to one pup a year. Bats are considered to be one of the slowest reproducing mammals. They typically will give birth in the spring when temperatures are warmer. A group of bats is called a colony and the pups are usually kept together for safety and warmth.

A mother bat can locate her pup by smell and sound. She can find her pup in a colony of millions. Speaking of sounds, did you know that male bats sometimes sing to attract a mate? Bat’s love insects but also like fruits as well. They actually help plants pollinate the same way a honey bee does!

Timbavati Wildlife Park is ecstatic to have our new bat pups and you can visit them in nursery number two. We’re open all year round so it’s always a good time to come see the pups. Please see our website for details!

Quick Facts: Sloth & New Baby Owl Monkey

Greetings friends and welcome to this week’s blog post! As I promised you all last week we got the cameras out and are excited to show you all some new images from Timbavati Wildlife Park. It really got us going and here is one of the first images to come from the shoot.

This little guy is the baby owl monkey that a lot of you have been asking about. He is only a few weeks old and has been peeping out at visitors that pass through. Baby owl monkeys are hard to breed as the gift of life and reproduction rates are a lot lower for owl monkeys than they are for a lot of our other animals.

Another noteworthy area of care for this little guy is isolating both he and mom from the other owl monkeys which kind of leads me to the crux of this blog. A lot of our animals in the park come and go quite regularly. We work with Zoos and fairs, tv shows and hollywood to bring enjoyment to people all over the United States.

Our nursery is the first short stop in the lives of our animal friends. Our nursery allows us to monitor their development and work with them on a daily basis to that the animals get used to working with people from early on.

There’s also a safety factor for the animals as the herds, packs, flocks, troops, mobs and creeps that they belong to might have competition for dominance and bloodline survival. In those more territorial societies we bring the young in until they are old enough to look after themselves in their species based encounters.

This Friday is also International Sloth Day! So this week’s video is all about Sid! Don’t forget we have a free pumpkin for kids when they buy and redeem a Fall Combo Ticket while supplies last! Talk with you next week!

Mama and Papa are The Stars Of The Show!

Greetings and salutations friends of Timbavati Wildlife Park! We are sooo excited to talk to you all this week. First let me start by saying congratulations to Mama and Papa who have been cast in a new television campaign! Second we are excited to announce our fall photo shoot!

That’s right, we have just traversed every inch of the park and snapped a bunch of cool heart warming pictures to entertain you all winter long. The animals at the park are always coming and going in some capacity. We have zoos and other attractions that we work with all over the country to educate and entertain people all over America. Which means we have new residents in the park and we can’t wait to introduce them to you. Give us a couple of weeks and we will begin to roll those pictures out for you.

Now back to mama and papa. Without giving to much away, Mama and Papa have been added to a commercial campaign. This week the cameras and lights focused on our pair of South African Penguins. It’s a winter time campaign and it’s funny because we had a full film crew and a snowmaker in the park to give us that winter wonderland feel.

As I was walking through the park thinking about the shoot and Mama and Papa’s role in the campaign I thought to myself, “these are warm weather penguins” but we’re going to make them look like antarctic penguins. You know there are more warm weather penguins than there are cold right? Well at least now I’m not the only one who knows this little fun fact.

When the campaign launches I will share it with you as our little stars are now celebs! We genuinely appreciate the chance to have our penguins filmed and can’t wait to show you the outcome of the shoot. Here is a look at Mama and Papa in this week’s video, talk with you all next week!

Oh yeah, starting this Friday, every child receives a free pumpkin when you buy a Fall Combo Ticket for their admission. Happy pumpkin carving season!

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Quick Facts: African Penguins

Greetings friends and welcome to this week’s blog post! This week Friday is actually African Penguin Awareness Day. Most people typically associate penguins with frigid temperatures but the reality is, there are more warm weather penguins than there are cold weather penguins. We love all penguins evenly around here.

In any event the South African penguin is also referred to as the Black Footed Penguin of the Jackass Penguin. It’s probably because they become unruly after a cold beer, LOL I’m kidding.

Seriously though it has a couple alias names.

Did you know that a penguin can dive to depths up to 130 meters? Yeah they’re little submariners for sure. They can also hold their breath for a few minutes at a time as well. They eat jellyfish and I wonder how they do that without being stung by them. It’s a hmm question for me :).

Penguins really love anchovies so if you’re ordering a pizza for them make sure that there’s some on the pie for them. I left you a bunch more facts to go over in this week’s video.

Don’t forget we’re open every day right now and we have a “Fall Combo Ticket” for everyone because everyone likes a discount right?

Talk to you all soon!