Talks and activities
Cambridgeshire's Wildlife Breeding Centre
Talks and activities scheduled for
weekends and school holidays
Some activities will be weather permitting and subject to staff availability. A daily programme will consisit of a selection of the talks and activities listed below, but not all of them on any one day. We reserve the right to alter or cancel any of the advertised programme without notice, if you are planning to visit for a particular activity please phone in the morning for confirmation.
Lemur feed and keeper talk
11.30 am weekends and school holidays (not daily) please call to check
Watch the lemur families have their breakfast and listen to the keepers inspiring talk about this fascinating group of animals and the work carried out at Linton Zoo to help save them from extinction. Tapir feed and keeper talk
Daily 12 noon.
A chance to find out more about these large rainforest creatures when our Brazilian Tapir family have their lunch Owl encounter and bird flying (weather permitting)
Summer Holidays (not daily) Please call to check
Get very close to some of our owls and other birds in this free flying display. In better weather you may see Odin and Ayesha our pair of Great Grey owls and meet Dodger the comical Cara cara. Sometimes hawks and falcons may also be flown free
Wonderful photographic opportunities
Ground hornbill conservation
1.30 pm school holidays (not daily) please call to check
Linton Zoo has been successful with the captive breeding of this very special group of birds. The numbers of wild birds has crashed over recent years, having lost over 70% of their natural habitat. Come to the keeper talk & find out more about this fantastic species of large bird and what we can all do to help save them from extinction.
Tiger conservation talk
2.15 pm usually daily
At the beginning of the 1900's there were around 100,000 tigers, today we have less than 5,000. Find out why, and what we are doing to help save these magnificent creatures. Snakes, bugs and little beasties
Summer but not daily Please call to check.
This is a very popular and interactive talk, geared to all ages it aims to give you a much better understanding of some of the little creatures which are generally misunderstood and often disliked. You can find out all about and often meet some of our little zoo animals including snakes, lizards, tarantula spiders, stick insects, cockroaches, giant millipedes and giant snails.