On The Prowl

We've had a long awaited week off from work and decided to pay a visit to the Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster.  I came away with a flat camera battery and nearly six hundred photographs which I'm still in process of checking through.  If you get the chance to visit it's well worth a look and there is something for everyone.  The kids will love it.

The lions of the park were rescued from a zoo in eastern Europe and they live in three different prides in the park.  I've already put up a comedy picture of the lions here and they do spend a lot of the time sleeping and not doing very much so catching them moving is a bit of an achievement.

There are other big cats at the park, including three beautiful Amur Tigers that like to lie in the most difficult places to get a decent photograph of them:

There is an incredible walkway approximately 30 feet off the ground that enables amazing views into the tiger enclosures.

The third big cat at the park is the Amur Leopard which also lives in a huge enclosure with plenty of climbing structures.  This one, was just content to get out of the afternoon heat an take it easy.