Lowland Anoa
Anoas are wild cows and are almost extinct with only a few thousand left. You can only find them on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia. They live in swampy forests and eat grass, saplings and fallen fruit. Humans are their only enemy although calves are sometimes eaten by pythons. Anoas have horns up to 30cm in length and they attack humans sometimes. Widget is on loan from Chester zoo and it is hoped that she will have a calf soon.

The Snowy Owl.

The Snowy Owl has thick feathers all the way to its toes to protect it from the severe cold of the Arctic regions where it lives. It lives for about 15 years. It has a short, hooked beak and sharp, curved claws for helping it to eat his prey. It has very good hearing for locating its prey. It has broad, rounded wings to help it fly great distances. It nests on the ground and lays between 2 –14 eggs which hatch in 32-34 days. It eats small mammals especially lemmings; birds and fish. It usually hunts during the day.

Length: 50-67.5cm.

Wingspan: 135-150 cm.

Weight 1.5-2kg.

East African Crowned Crane (Lady)
The crowned crane roosts in trees. One of its toes on each foot is adapted to help keep the crane in place in the tree.
In the wild, crowned cranes live in quite large groups except in the breeding season. The dancing of one bird can set the whole flock off displaying.
Cranes are the most threatened of the bird families. The threat comes from man draining their wetland homes and also from the fact that the birds don't produce many young.

Pine Marten

Pine martens are usually found in the Scottish Highlands and Grampian, and in southern Scotland. Pine martens prefer well-wooded areas with plenty of cover. Marten dens are commonly found in hollow trees or the fallen root masses of Scots pines, an association that probably earned pine martens their name; cairns and cliffs covered with scrub are frequently used as den sites. Martens have a very varied diet, which changes with the seasonal availability of different foods. Small rodents are a very important food, but birds, beetles, carrion, eggs and fungi are also eaten. In autumn, berries are a staple part of the diet. Martens mostly hunt on the ground, although they are superb climbers and can climb with great agility.Young martens are born blind and hairless, in litters of 1-5, in early spring and stay with their mothers for about six weeks. Their eyes open at the end of May and by mid-June they begin to emerge from their den. Pine martens have lived up to 17 years in captivity, but in the wild most probably die before they are eight years old.

Wallaby

Bennett’s Wallaby is a native of the south-eastern corner of mainland Australia and also the island of Tasmania. It is a relative of the red-necked Wallaby and lives in wooded country.They also live and breed in Britain, having first been kept in wildlife parks and then escaped into the countryside. Those kept in parks can live to be up to fifteen years old but in general, they will live to around ten years old.Wallabies do not eat meat, so are classed as vegetarians and will eat grass, fruit, bark, roots and leaves.Young Wallabies are called Joeys. They are born with no fur and are carried in their mother’s pouch for the first few months of their life.They are considered to be one of nature’s unlucky animals, being small enough to be at the mercy of dogs and foxes, which were introduced by white settlers in the 19^th Century. Wallaby fur is valued for sale outside Australia and the speed they can travel at makes them targets for hunters. Their meat is agreeable for humans to eat.

Caracal

A caracal is a medium sized cat which is smaller than the Lynx.
It has large tufted ears and a slender face.
Caracals are very agile hunters that can leap acrobatically into the air to bring down prey, such as guinea fowl, on the wing.
They were once trained by hunters in India and Persia to catch deer and small game.
They are a vulnerable species in many parts of India.

Red Panda

The red panda looks more like racoons than their closest relative-the Giant Panda. They are secretive and gentle creatures, spending most of the day sleeping curled up with their tail wrapped around their head. The red Panda lives in steeply sloped forests.Its fur is long, thick and fuzzy which protects it against the rain and it helps the panda to blend with the reddish moss and white lichen growing on the fur trees of its habitat. These pandas have fur on their feet which helps them grip on wet branches and to keep them warm when it snows.

Monkey

The Black Capped Capuchin can be found in the treetops of the forests of America and Trinidad. They are small monkeys. The male grows to about 56cm from head to toe, and the female is slightly smaller at 48cm. The male Capuchin weighs between 3.5 – 3.9kg and the female weighs between 2.5 and 3kg. Their tail helps them to climb and hold on to branches. They are very clever animals and have human-like expressive faces. They like to eat fruit and nuts but also like to forage on wood bark and look for insects on the forest floor.