GEORGIA WILD ANIMAL SAFARI WINDOWS

The park was purchased 11 years ago and the new owners have upgraded the grounds, acquired new animals and worked to enhance guests’ experience. Mike shown here with Eddie the squirrel monkey. General Manager, Mike Newman, cares greatly for all the animals (including endangered species) at Wild Animal Safari. Wild Animal Safari also has a café and gift shop. One of the goals in the creation of the park was to be a reasonably priced attraction, allowing proper care of the animals and grounds and helping children to gain a lifelong love of animals and nature. Wild Animal Safari was founded in 1991 by Ron Snider, who wanted to create a place where people could get up close and personal with the types of animals many folks never get to experience. She will be available for viewings on weekends in March. Nika came to Wild Animal Safari from North Carolina and will soon be a companion to Athena, a white tiger that is about six months older. A Liger is a cross between a male lion and female tiger. One of the highlights was getting to see the parks eight-week-old Liger, Nika. There were baboons, kangaroo, tortoises, peacocks, singing dogs (yes, they actually sing), tigers and more. We were able to pet them, feed them, take lots of pictures and videos and get a lot of excitement and laughs out of the experience.Īfter the ride, we strolled through the Walkabout, which was more like a traditional zoo. The rest of the 3-1/2-mile ride was just as exciting, with Pot-Bellied Pigs running next to the van, American Bison, Texas Longhorn, Ostrich, Zebra, Nilgai, Gaur and more coming right up to the vehicle and letting us feed them. Wild Animal Safari lets you get up close and personal with animals you can usually only see from a distance. As we pulled away, about 30 animals trotted after us. We stayed to enjoy them for a good while and eventually started forward. We all had the opportunity to pet them, feed them, appreciate their beauty and get slobbered on by them. These beautiful, giant animals came right up to the van, stuck their heads in as much as they could with the bars on the windows, and reached their long tongues in to grab the food. Once they saw us, they crossed the pasture toward us. My husband pulled the van up next to where they were housed. The next stop was the giraffes, Rose and Too Tall. Five-year-old Harvey never thought he would be able to feed his favorite animal: a giraffe. Mouflon sheep jumping on the side of the van, begging for food. Again, all sorts of animals that had been laying in the field or grazing in the distance came over to see if they could get a hand-out. These animals wanted the food so badly, they were standing on their hind legs, resting their front hooves against the van. We started forward and were greeted by a group of Mouflon Sheep. We literally sat in that spot right at the entrance for a good 15 minutes, having so much fun feeding and observing all of the different animals that were coming up.

All of us were wide-eyed and laughing with excitement.

GEORGIA WILD ANIMAL SAFARI WINDOWS

The Elk and other animals stuck their heads right in the windows and ate food out of our hands (luckily there were a few metal bars to prevent the animals heads from getting all the way into the vehicle). They quickly grabbed them, and immediately afterward, Elk, Axis Deer, Fallow Deer, Pot- Bellied Pigs and other species of animals swarmed our van. With their sharp beaks, and heeding the advice of park staff, we decided we had better not hand feed them and set a couple of pieces of food on the van window. After the two-hour drive to Pine Mountain, we were ready to see some animals! Nika, Wild Animal Safari’s new liger (lion – tiger cross) pictured at sevenĪrmed with eight bags of food, right after crossing the gate, we were greeted by several Emu. Our three boys piled into the zebra van and we headed toward the front gate of the Serengeti Adventure, the drive-through safari-like experience. Once we arrived at the 500-acre park, we opted to take one of Wild Animal Safari’s zebra minivans, available to rent for $22, rather than our own vehicle. One Friday in February when school was closed, my family and I took the opportunity to visit Wild Animal Safari, in Pine Mountain, Georgia. About two hours south of Suwanee in Pine Mountain, Georgia, Wild Animal Safari is a 500 acre drive-through animal park, that lets you get face-to-face with over 650 animals from all over the world.īy: Angela Veugeler | Photos by Angela Veugeler Eight-year-old Tyler feeding a rocky mountain elk.

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