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Longleat Safari Park in United Kingdom
Longleat Safari Park
Type zoo
Owner 1966: Jimmy Chipperfield
Size 9,000 acres (36.42 km2)
Founded 1966
Opened for public 1966
Address
The Estate Office, Longleat
Zip-code
BA12 7NW
Place
Warminster
District
Wiltshire
Region
South West England
Country
United Kingdom
Website
Website
Directors 1966: Mary Chipperfield (director) 1966: Roger Cawley (director)
Key People 1967-1972: Anne Olivecrona (zookeeper)
Veterinarians
Elephant department
Head keepers of elephants -: Andy Hayton (elephant head-keeper)
Elephant keepers : Jedd Cullinan : Kevin Knibbs -: Bev Evans -: Ryan Hockley Record history
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Description
Longleat Safari Park, located at The Estate Office, Longleat, in Warminster, United Kingdom
, was founded in 1966, opened for public in 1966.
Living elephants At the Longleat Safari Park lives 1 elephants with records in this database: (detail list ) ♀ Anne born 1954
Comments / pictures Longleat Safari Park, in Wiltshire, England was opened in 1966 by Jimmy Chipperfield and was the first drive-through safari park outside of Africa.
The park is situated in the grounds of Longleat House, the home of the 7th Marquess of Bath and a tourist attraction in its own right. The safari park was the first of its kind anywhere in the world and was considered to be a massive breakthrough in the way in which captive animals were kept, with the animals roaming freely and the visitors in cages (cars). Today Longleat\'s collection comprises over 500 animals, and the whole estate is situated on 9000 acres (36 km²) of Wiltshire countryside.
*wikipedia
When I first visited Longleat it was home to five magnificent elephants called Marge, Limbo, N’dala, M’bili and M’kali. They lived up in a far corner of the park under the care of keeper Andy Hayton ,
and Ryan Hockley
worked in the elephant house with Bev Evans
and Kevin Knibbs .
They all loved those elephants, but they were particularly special to Andy. The elephants were like his children. He fed them, washed them and took them out for walks in the woods. When I think of Andy, I still see him spraying them down with his powerhose and then scrubbing them with a brush. One of the greatest privileges I ever had at Longleat was helping him give them their early-morning shower and taking them for a walk. The five elephants would walk in single file, holding each other’s tails with their trunks. It was like a real life Disney film.
The Accidental Naturalist, by Ben Fogle
References for records about Longleat Safari Park
Recommended Citation Koehl, Dan (2025). Longleat Safari Park, Elephant Encyclopedia. Available online at https://www.elephant.se/location2.php?location_id=259 . (archived at the Wayback machine )Sources used for this article is among others:
Longleat Safari Park on elephant-news.com
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