tourism

Greetings friends and welcome to this week’s blog post. If you’re looking something cool to do over the Christmas break remember we’re open most days. Check our website for Encounter Tour times and the days we’re open. This week I figured we could pop on over to the waterfalls area and take a look at our pals the porcupines. Did you know that the porcupine is the 3rd largest rodent in the world? We know the capybara is number one and the distinction of number two goes to the beaver. Another fun fact is that porcupines have roughly 30,000 covering…
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Greetings friends and welcome to this weeks blog. We had a little dustup of snow around here this week and that gave everything a great wintery look. I was feeling so great about seeing the first snowfall that I wanted to jump on Old Man Winter’s train and talk about a wintery animal or two. That took me to our resident penguins, Mama and Papa. Those of you who have been reading our blog for a while will remember these two starring in the Wisconsin State Lottery “Pengwin” campaign last winter. So for everyone keeping score here, penguins = winter…
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Greetings friends and welcome to this week’s blog. If you recall, last winter our resident penguin superstars “Mama and Papa” were in a Wisconsin State Lottery Commercial. That commercial was a cute trip through a winter wonderland as the cute little penguin escapes his enclosure and ends up cashing in a lottery ticket. The commercial was a very proud moment for us at Timbavati Wildlife Park. It’s great partnering with different organizations from around the state and the planet. Part of our involvement in the commercial was for the conservation of penguins. Mama and Papa are African penguins. They live…
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Greetings friends and welcome to the first Monday in the month of March. Basketball tournaments aren’t the only sign of the 3rd month of the year. This month begins the countdown to our opening weekend which is only about 8 weeks away. That’s a very short period of time in animal years LOL.  One thing that won’t be short is your trip to Timbavati Wildlife Park where you can see really cool animals like our Wildebeests. This native of Africa can be found in the southern half of Africa. It is also referred to as a gnu. The wildebeest is…
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