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West Midland Safari and Leisure Park is a safari park located in Bewdley in Worcestershire, England. It was opened in spring 1973. The park holds over 165 species of exotic animals. The drive-through safari contains about 600 animals from around 40 different species from Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. The park also includes a large Adventure Theme Park, a walk-through Discovery Trail including reptiles, invertebrates, fish, bats, penguins and sea lions and a walk-through African Village with the largest Lemur woods in the UK and a large meerkat mayhem. There is also the newly refurbished Spring Grove House, the grounds of which the park is built in. The park's wide variety of immersive animal exhibits together with a theme park and corporate facilities means it offers facilities for all types of guest including groups and school children. The park is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA). The dhole and cheetah enclosures in the drive-through safari are part of a larger heathland Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) which the park is restoring. The park contains the largest pride of white lions, the largest coalition of cheetahs, the largest pod of common hippopotamus, the largest mob of meerkats, and the largest lemur walk-through exhibit in the UK. It was also the first park in the UK to have the African big five game animals.〔 ==Safari drive-through== The safari drive-through is a drive. Visitors can drive their own cars through the Safari or pay to go on one of the guided mini bus tours which are available throughout the day.〔〔 ;African Reserve The African Reserve is home to the safari's white rhinos and giraffes, as well as zebras, ellipsen waterbuck, African dwarf buffalo, eland and red lechwe.〔 ;Dholes The dhole enclosure is not only home to the endangered wild dogs, but is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) for preservation because it is lowland heathland which is also becoming increasingly rare in the UK.〔〔 ;Asian Reserve This reserve area is home to Asian animals including barasingha, blackbuck, chital, lowland anoa, sambar deer, Philippine spotted deer, and Asian water buffalo. This area is also home to the greater one horned rhinoceros〔 as well as little owls, white tigers and black rabbits.〔 ;Kingdom of the White Lions * White lion In 2004, West Midland Safari Park opened this exhibit with one male and three females from sister park Ongava Game Reserve in Namibia. This was the UK’s first pride of African white lions. In 2007, four cubs were born in the space of nine hours, doubling the size of the pride. These were the first white lions born in the UK, and were followed two weeks later by two more cubs. White lions are not a separate species than the better known tawny coloured African lion, just a different colour variation that rarely appears.〔 ;Tiger Ridge & Tiger Reserves * Tiger * * White Bengal tiger * * Sumatran tiger ;Cheetah Plains * Cheetah ;African Wild Dog Reserve * African wild dog ;Realm of the Lions 2013 saw the update of this huge drive-through exhibit with a central pride rock, plenty of savannah theming with a water feature and a brand new state of the art lion house. * Lion ;Eurasian Reserve * Bactrian camel * Java banteng * Nilgai * Père David's deer * Barbary sheep ;Elephant Valley Elephant Valley is home to the Safari Park's African elephants.〔 As of 2012, the Safari Park was home to only two female elephants.〔 In May 2014 Elephant Valley became home to a new arrival baby male named Sutton. Sutton was named after Stephen Sutton after an overwhelming majority voted on the parks Facebook page. Sutton is the first male African elephant successfully born through AI in the UK. ;Other species * Addax * Cape buffalo * Fallow deer * * Persian fallow deer * Gemsbok * Ostrich * Przewalski's horse * Reindeer * Sika deer * * Formosan sika deer * Yak 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「West Midland Safari Park」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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