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Buckfast Butterflies & Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary - Buckfastleigh
Buckfast Butterflies and Dartmoor Otter Sanctuary offers a great, enjoyable, otter and butterfly educational experience. Wander around the otter sanctuary and butterfly farm and see new butterflies emerge in tropical surroundings. See the otters swimming underwater in specially built glass enclosures. Follow the otter keeper around at feeding...
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Crealy Great Adventure Park Cornwall - Wadebridge
With exciting new attractions, dash to Cornwall’s Crealy Great Adventure Park. Swoop and soar on the Morgawr roller coaster, splash down Raging Rivers, brave The Beast or dare The Giant Twister. Plus for rainy days, dive into 45,000 sq feet of indoor play with a labyrinth of mazes, ball pools, rope ladders and aerial glides. With wild...
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Dartmoor Zoological Park - Plymouth
There are over 200 animals at Dartmoor Zoological Park: from tiny stick insects to Ben our Brown Bear or Solomon our Lion all set in over 30 acres of beautiful parkland. Discover something different, learn something amazing and help us make tomorrow's world rich in animal life. Our new meerkats, Sue and Timon, took up residence in their brand new...
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Living Coasts - Torquay
Living Coasts, Torquay's Coastal Zoo, is a unique, world class aquatic visitor attraction, focusing on the conservation of coastal and marine life around the globe. It has been developed by Paignton Zoo, with financial support from the South West Regional Development Agency and the European Regional Development fund. Take a journey around the...
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National Marine Aquarium - Plymouth
The National Marine Aquarium was the first aquarium in the United Kingdom to be set up solely for the purpose of education, conservation and research. It remains Britain's foremost aquarium and in the six years it has been open it has attracted over two million visitors through its doors and thousands of enquiries by letter, telephone, fax and...
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Paignton Zoo
Paignton Zoo is home to thousands of amazing animals and plants. Visit the desert, cross the savannah, explore the forest and trek through the tropics. Use your senses to discover the wild world: look around, listen out - you’ll even need your sense of smell! It’s a great day out for everyone. Why not visit Living Coasts, our sister...
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Pennywell Farm & Wildlife Centre - Buckfastleigh
Come and experience the Pennywell magic at our multi award winning Farm Activity Park... the biggest in the South West! There's lots to do and see for the whole family... Ponies and piglets, slides, go-karts, quad bikes and train rides, eagles and owls, walks and mazes, goats and guinea pigs, reindeer and rides, hedgehogs and bunnies, trampolines...
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Porfell Wildlife Park & Sanctuary - Liskeard
Where the peace and tranquility of the Cornish countryside combines with the exotic world of wild animals A zoo with a difference! Porfell is home to zoo animals needing a home for life. In the park, you will get up close and personal to exotic animals including Ring-tailed lemurs, Ostrichs, Zebra and Meerkats. Mac is a coatimundi...
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Shaldon Wildlife Trust
The Trust is a unique organisation which cares for some of the world's most endangered species. Our centre, set in an acre of natural woodland gardens with lush semi-tropical planting, nestles into the hillside above the attractive coastal village of Shaldon in South Devon. As the smallest member of the British and European Association of Zoos...
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The Tamar Valley Donkey Park - Gunnislake
FUN FOR ALL WITH OUR DONKEYS, GOATS, SHEEP, PIGS, RABBITS & GUINEA PIGS TO FEED & PET HOLLY’S CAFÉ FOR HOT & COLD MEALS & CORNISH CREAM TEAS - SEE THE MENU DONKEY BAZAAR GIFT SHOP FOR DONKEY GIFTS WITH OUR HUGE INDOOR PLAY BARN YOU CAN VISIT US WHATEVER THE WEATHER TO MEET THE DONKEYS AND OTHER ANIMALS AS WELL AS SOFT...
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This section lists zoos in Plymouth so if you would like to take the little monkeys to the zoo please see our list below. Some of the zoos listed maybe farms, or petting farms, these zoos have a varied selection of animals for viewing.
there are lions and you can sometimes drive through the paddocks and view them from the comfort of your car. there are also baboons and monkeys which can be fun to watch. Or there are elephants, giraffes and other African and Indian animals.
A lot of zoos have collections of insects and birds and also water creatures, all in all a trip out to the zoo is an educational experience for your children.
If you live in the Plymouth area and you are searching for a fun family day out then why not take the loved ones to the nearest zoo. With a great deal to see and do, a visit to the zoo will be the great day trip for families of all age groups. From Grandparents to tots, aunties and uncles, a day to the zoo is terrific fun for all of the family. A visit to your nearby zoo near Plymouth is both helpful and also informative, and also can leave you with a long lasting impression. The wildlife on show will be made up of numerous types of extremely rare, exotic and protected creatures. Getting close to one of the larger wildlife such as camels as well as lions is an unique encounter. there are a large number of different varieties of avian species to discover at a zoo like buzzards and also flamingos. Various zoos could have a reptile house so you are able to see wildlife like extremely dangerous snakes including rattlesnakes. A diverse variety of mammals is going to be on display for instance leopards and kangaroos. From the lakes as well as seas of our earth there are plenty of impressive species of fish to see like butterfly fish. Diverse and vibrant ocean life such as seahorses are usually wonderful to see. Amphibians such as toads are usually fascinating for youngsters of all ages to study. A zoo is actually a location in which living wildlife are housed to be exhibited and studied. The title is actually a popular type of zoological garden, and a good number of zoos are landscapes or parks containing structures and various other enclosures. Zoos normally look after only wild wildlife, many of them coming from faraway nations around the world. However, some zoos house domestic wildlife such as cattle and sheep to show to city children who may have no opportunity to visit farms. Children's zoos are sometimes included in zoological gardens. They may possibly have areas where kids can observe young wildlife, and at times have areas where kids may pet as well as feed tame wildlife. Zoos are definitely important centres of wildlife preservation. A lot of zoos breed protected animals, several of which are no longer found in the outdoors.