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EdZoocation Education on the biodiversity of the Animal kingdom. Schools, parties, care homes and more!

Educational animal visitsšŸ“NE England. Schools, youth groups, care homes, birthday parties etc! Fully licensed and insur...
07/10/2026

Educational animal visitsšŸ“NE England. Schools, youth groups, care homes, birthday parties etc! Fully licensed and insured. Please get in touch for more info and personalised quotes šŸ«¶šŸ»

07/10/2026

Sharing is not the prairie dogs strongest suit šŸ˜‚

07/10/2026

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06/10/2026

Reminding me that I should be feeding not doing maintenance!

Iā€™m hoping to get this page more active now, as sharing images from outreach visits is at the customers discretion Iā€™ll ...
05/10/2026

Iā€™m hoping to get this page more active now, as sharing images from outreach visits is at the customers discretion Iā€™ll be starting a new series of šŸ§©Enrichment of the weekšŸ§©. Every Monday Iā€™ll choose an enrichment item and throughout the week post videos of various species interacting with it.

The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria describes enrichment as ā€œa process of continually providing animals with behavioural opportunities that are typical of their species, with the aim of improving their welfare.ā€

There are many types of enrichment including sensory, locomotory, cognitive, nutritional, social and environmental - often one activity overlaps to fit multiple categories!

Many of these can be tried at home with store bought or made enrichment items. Remember to disinfect between species and individuals, or have duplicates of the same store bought item to reduce any disease or health risk. Eg donā€™t put meat in an item youā€™re then also going to use with herbivores unless itā€™s plastic or steel and able to be sterilised well.

The first enrichment item is this simple puzzle toy (Pets UK). This is especially good for animals with a good sense of smell, however those with poor smell are still capable of learning that under each lid there may be food!

Good news, I had my inspection at my new premises last week and have now received my licence allowing me to provide outr...
05/10/2026

Good news, I had my inspection at my new premises last week and have now received my licence allowing me to provide outreach full time.

The next step will be the zoo licensing process which will allow everyone to visit the animals on site ā˜ŗļø

29/09/2026

This is why it takes so long.. šŸ˜‚

23/09/2026

On the way to The Kiwa Centre for a Parrot keeper workshop, to learn lots of new things which I can apply to the resident lorikeets and macaws!

21/09/2026

Kooks coming on nicely šŸŖ¶

14/09/2026

I usually film training as itā€™s good to look back and see why things may have gone right or wrong, so Iā€™ll start sharing them too ā˜ŗļø my biggest challenge is moving all the birds away from traditional falconry methods to restraint free methods (unless in case of emergency, in which case grab the bird if needed!!) But the harder work in the short term is worth it in the long run. Ben has always had glove issues so getting the other birds content on the glove without food shouldnā€™t be as tricky!

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