Exotic Animal Meet and Greets
Meerkat Meet & Greet
A great chance to get up close and personal with a meerkat mob! Get the chance to have a one on one experience with our cheeky meerkats in their enclosure! Upon your arrival to the Farm Park, your experience will begin with an introduction to one of our handlers who’ll provide you with a safety talk. You will then be invited inside the meerkat enclosure to say hello and learn about their behaviours, habitat and diet. You will also be able to hand feed the meerkats and potentially handle them as well!
Ages: 6+
Duration: 30 minutes
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Serval Meet and Greet
The experience for all cat lovers! Do you want to get up close and personal with a species of wild African cat? Then this is the experience for you! Come and meet our Servals. You will have the opportunity to feed them in a one to one experience with our exotic animal handlers while they discuss with you their behaviour, habitat and diet. Upon arrival a member of our exotic animal team will meet you and escort you to the Serval enclosure, where you will receive an important health and safety briefing. Once positioned safely you will provide the cats with their lunch through the bars of their enclosure.
Ages: 10+
Duration: 20 minutes
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Skunk meet and greet
Think we’re stinking cute? Get the chance to have a one on one experience with our adorable skunks ‘Chip’ and ‘Primrose’ in their enclosure! Upon your arrival to the Farm Park, your experience will begin with an introduction to one of our handlers who’ll provide you with a safety talk. You will then be invited inside the skunk enclosure to say hello and learn about their behaviours, habitat and diet. You will also be able to hand feed the Skunks and potentially handle them as well!
Ages: 8 Years +
Duration: 30-40 minutes
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Meet and handle our adorable sugar gliders!
Get the chance to meet one of the cutest small exotic mammals here at Barleylands Farm Park! Starting with a guided tour of our Nocturnal Animal House, you will then be able to feed, stroke and hold our colony of 4 Sugar gliders! You will have to chance to learn about their environment, habitat and conservation projects helping to protect them in the wild. There will be several photograph opportunities for you to capture your memories to take home with you of your time at Barleylands.
Duration: 20 minutes.
Age: 8+
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Meet and handle 2 of our small snakes!
For all you snake lovers, this is truly the experience day for you! Starting with a guided tour of our reptile house, you will then be able to meet and greet 2 different species of snakes. You will have to chance to learn about their environment, habitat and conservation projects helping to protect them in the wild. There will be several photograph opportunities for you to capture your memories to take home with you of your time at Barleylands.
Duration: 20 minutes.
Age: 6+
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Python Meet and Greet
Are you brave enough to meet and handle a 15ft long python?! In this experience you will come face to face and even hold our 15ft long Reticulated python ‘Kaa’, named after the character from the Jungle Book!
Duration: 40 minutes
Age: 12 years+
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Lizard Meet and Greet
Are you crazy about reptiles! Starting with a guided tour of our reptile house, you will then be able to meet and greet 2 different species of lizards. You will have to chance to learn about their environment, habitat and conservation projects helping to protect them in the wild. There will be several photograph opportunities for you to capture your memories to take home with you of your time at Barleylands.
Duration: 20 minutes
Ages: 6yrs+
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Junior Keeper Experience
A Brilliant gift for young animal lovers! Our junior keeper experience gets you behind the scenes of our Barleylands Zoo, including our nocturnal animal house, reptile house and bird of prey centre! Spend 2 hours with a zoo keeper and get to see all the aspects of taking care of our magnificent animals! When you first arrive at the centre you will be met by our experienced animal keeper who will complete a brief talk as to what the day will include. You will then have the chance to feed a few different species of animals, take care of their general husbandry, make some enrichment for the animals to play with, handle some of our exotic animals as well as fly a bird of prey!
Duration: 2 hours.
Age: 7+
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