Reptiles at West Midlands Safari Park
Recently we had the privilege of meeting Mark O'Shea, famous for his tv programmes about reptiles, he has also written several books, and he is the curator of the reptile house at West Midlands Safari Park.
We have been to the Safari Park at the beginning of the month, and we were very keen to see the reptile house, having watched a tv programme documenting the move of two large anacondas into bigger and better accommodation as part of the "record breakers" exhibit.
We were not disappointed. We observed a pair of reticulated pythons who have a fabulous large enclosure with a big pool, large enough for the male to glide across the water, looking very mencacing, exactly as you maight see them in the wild, it was an inspiring sight, and it was wonderful to see captive animals being able to behave in such a natural way. The anaconda enclosure was similar, very well set up with trees etc.
The rest of the exhibits were also impressive, we loved the king cobra's temple, the vipers and rattlesnakes, all with a well planned environment to live in.
It has to be the best display of captive exotic reptiles I have seen to date, extremely well planned and set up. Mark has gone for quality over quantity and it works very, very well. I would highly recommend a visit.
The rest of the park is not to be missed, the white lions were active and we were able to get some great photos, some of which I will be adding to the gallery page.
We were amused by the elephants who appeared to be playing a game with a length of rubber hose, taking it in turns to shake it and toss it around.
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OCTOBER 14th 2007
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News from Medusa Exotics
EXCITING NEWS !!
We are very pleased to announce the forthcoming opening of our retail shop at Gedling, we hope to be up and running in about a month.
We will still be running the online and Ebay business as usual.
Customers who normally collect live or frozen food from us are requested to phone ahead at least a day earlier to ensure that someone can attend to you. We will be at the shop as much as possible whilst we get everything set up.
Once the shop opens, all collections must be from the shop during business hours. We plan to open 7 days.
We cannot offer employment to anyone at present, thank you to everyone who has shown an interest.
JUNE 14th 2008
C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S !!!
We are very happy to be able to wish good luck and happiness to Claire and Wolf on their engagement. All the very best to you both. :)) xxx
JULY 5th 2008
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