Tag: Animals
Marwell Bites animal news October 2025
October 23, 2025
Pumpkin season has arrived! This week, our residents have been tucking into some seasonal treats (keep an eye on our socials to see more), and there’s plenty of other exciting […]
How new research is helping understand the secret lives of snakes
October 21, 2025
For many years, snakes have proven an especially tricky group to understand, reptile behaviours are often subtle and difficult to detect which leads to them being misjudged. However, exciting new […]
Celebrating our third okapi calf birth in three years this World Okapi Day
October 18, 2025
We’re celebrating World Okapi Day on October 18 with some very exciting news – the birth of a new endangered okapi calf. Born to mother, Daphne on 10 September 2025, […]
Marwell Zoo celebrates first baby potoroo just in time for World Animal Day
October 8, 2025
We’re delighted to announce the arrival of our first ever potoroo joey! The elusive and tiny southern long-nosed potoroo joey, is probably three months old, but has only just been […]
Marwell Bites animal news September 2025
September 26, 2025
As summer fades, we’re kicking off a season of exciting animal action at the park. From tiny new arrivals to habitat upgrades, the park has been buzzing this month. A […]
Celebrating the first-ever Scimitar-Horned Oryx Day – a 50-year conservation story
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 […]
Scimitar-Horned Oryx Day – a symbol of saving species from extinction
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 […]
Meet our new potoroo pair!
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 […]
New binturong arrives for vital breeding programme
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 […]
Twice as nice! Meet our cotton-top tamarin twins
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. […]