The Large & the Small of it...
16/07/2016
The animal collection at Hamerton Zoo Park is very varied, and whilst completion of our new Malayan Tiger enclosure 'Tiger Falls' is only a couple of weeks away, housing some of our largest animals - new aviaries have been constructed for some tiny new arrivals. The first of these is a colony of wild Australian Zebra Finches which arrived from France a few weeks ago, and now on show. Zebra Finches are very popular pets, but all the others in the UK are large domesticated multi-coloured mutations. Our new birds were imported from a research laboratory near Paris and are the small wild type, the ancestors of the familiar domestic pets. More small Australian birds will be joining them soon, and our sincere thanks go to the 'Australian Finch Society' for their help in this project.