Tag: Animals

August 19, 2025

By Sophie Whitemore, Marwell Wildlife Zoologist & International Studbook Keeper for the Scimitar-horned Oryx On 16 August 2025, we’re celebrating the very first Scimitar-Horned Oryx Day, a new world awareness […]

August 14, 2025

This week sees the first International Scimitar-Horned Oryx Day in recognition of the decades-long work conservation organisations like Marwell Wildlife have done around the world to save the species from […]

July 31, 2025

Meet our new potoroo pair, Neville and Truffle! Truffle may be the younger of the two, but she’s certainly the bolder, often the first to appear when keepers arrive with […]

May 28, 2025

What looks like a cross between a bear and a cat and smells like buttery popcorn? A binturong of course, and we have welcomed our second of these unusual animals […]

April 10, 2025

It’s a case of twice as nice – or maybe double trouble – at Marwell, where twin baby cotton-top tamarins have arrived just in time for National Siblings Day today. […]

March 29, 2025

We’re celebrating Mother’s Day with a series of adorable new arrivals. Among the latest births is a female banteng calf, born to experienced parents Jin and Henky on 3 March. […]

March 17, 2025

This World Serval Day, we’re celebrating Marwell Zoo’s two servals (leptailurus serval), a female name Hex and a male called Mr Jinx Moustache. Jinx, who could arguably win the competition […]

March 5, 2025

We’re thrilled to welcome two new big cats to the 140-acre park! A beautiful female snow leopard, Zaya, and a magnificent male Amur tiger, Pasha, are settling into their new […]

November 8, 2024

It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of our much-loved Rothschild’s giraffe calf, Mbonisi. Born in August to first-time mother Ruby, Mbonisi quickly captured all our hearts […]

October 30, 2024

We’re celebrating a baby boom at the zoo after welcoming adorable new arrivals, which offer a glimmer of hope to species on the brink of extinction. Visitors can spot the […]