Animals join in the Easter fun at Lake District Wildlife Park

Manga the Marmoset, Nobby and Sally the Gibbons and the Meerkat mob were amongst some of the animals that were given Easter eggs to play with.

Animal keeper Kirsti spent hours making and decorating the eggs on her days off to ensure the animals had some Easter fun too!

This meerkat climbed inside the Easter egg to make sure there was nothing left (Image: Lake District Wildlife Park)

The eggs were filled with food and treats and then hung up or placed in enclosures.

The Meerkats had a great time ripping open their eggs to get the goodies before climbing inside of them to make sure there was nothing left!

One of the Park's residents inspects its Easter egg (Image: Lake District Wildlife Park)

Nobby and Sally were a bit more sophisticated spending time to investigate their eggs before delving in. They then sat in the sunshine enjoying their snacks and treats.

Manga is shy and cautious, so she spent a quite a bit of time playing with her egg before breaking into it. Well, they do say that animals are just like children... some dive straight in and devour their eggs whilst others make them last until next Easter!

This marmoset was cautious about its Easter egg (Image: Lake District Wildlife Park)

There was also lots of fun for children with an Easter treasure hunt that took them around the Park in search of the golden egg. Painted eggs were hung on animal enclosures with a clue that would lead them to the next one. The task was to find out who was guarding the precious golden egg and the answer was the dinosaurs! And anyone who gave the correct answer to reception was rewarded with some chocolate eggs.

Children had fun on the Easter egg hunt (Image: Lake District Wildlife Park)

On the final day of the Easter holidays, the Woodland Trust visited the Park to inspire young and old to get more involved with nature and the wildlife that is supported by woodlands.

Mark from the Woodland Trust had a stand in between two pens of Bagot goats, so in between speaking to visitors he was entertained by the goats.

The Woodland Trust were on site to teach people about our native tree species (Image: Lake District Wildlife Park)

Any visitors who came to feed the goats then had a chance to make journey sticks, do some leaf identification and talk about trees!

All in all, it was a fun-filled Easter holidays. Animal keepers are now busy checking on lambs and calves and any other spring babies, the café staff are planning the summer menu and the education officer is busy looking after schools and get ready for bug and beastie week during the next half term break.