The Best Feed an animal Experience Days (in order of awesomeness)

These experiences are a chance to get up close and personal with your favourite animal. From big cats, through those perky little fellows the penguins, to everyone’s favourite, the meerkat, you can pick all kinds of different animals to feed and look after, And all under the watchful eye of a knowledgeable keeper.whose tales of zoo and animal life will have you enthralled. On animal feeding experiences, you get to shadow the keeper and help him (or her) to clean out, look after and handle the animals – though not on big cat experiences or ones that can be dangerous! You can even get to feed and handle reptiles, snakes and spiders, which turn out to be far more fascinating and lovable than you thought. It’s all the fun of being a zookeeper with none of the drawbacks.

Lemur experience

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This lemur experience is one of our favourite animal experiences, and you can really get hands-on with the animals and you always get bounced on. Find out more in our review of this great experience day now.

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How about feeding penguins on an animal experience day? Throw fish to the cheeky penguins and get up close and learn all about these fishy, feathery fellows.

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If you want some quality red-panda-time, then this is the perfect animal experience day for an animal lover. We've found the best prices in the UK to feed these loveable animals. Find out more now.

Reptile experience – handling lizards and creepy crawlies

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Reptile handling doesn't come any scalier than this. And there's spiders and bugs to handle too. How cool is that?

Llama experience – enjoy a llama trek with tea

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Llama trek experience - spend a fabulous afternoon in the company of llamas, walk alongside these lovely gentle creatures and find out just how quirky and inquisitive these intelligent creatures are. This is an experience you'll treasure.

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This lady seems to be loving meerkats a bit too much! Anyway, you can feed meerkats and have them climbing all over you and it's a great gift. You've seen these furry little chaps on TV, now see and touch and feed them in the flesh for a brilliant day's entertainment.

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Tickle a tapir on the most unusual animal experience we've found ! Give him a nice back scratch and a tickle behind the ears.. And visit the zoo for the whole day included.

Junior zookeeper – looking after animals for kids

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With most of the standard zookeeper experiences, you have to be at least 16 to get involved with the animals at close range. But luckily, the animal parks are catching on to the demand and are starting to offer experiences especially for children. These experiences are split into two themselves – Junior zookeeper experiences, which are just like the...

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Meet the King of the Jungle up close and personal

Meet a giraffe – a tall animal experience

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Feed a giraffe and get close to one with its lovely long eyelashes. On this animal experience you'll find out loads about these these friendly, long-necked leaf-guzzlers.