Edinburgh Zoo is offering a unique experience for visitors willing to pay £2,000: a 30-minute session feeding Sumatran tigers through a secure mesh fence. This 'Build Your Own Wild Experience' package also includes lunch, a voucher for coffee and cake, interactions with four other animals of their choice, and full-day zoo access.
Visitors to Edinburgh Zoo are being given the chance to feed a tiger - if they are brave enough and have a spare £2,000.
The hefty price for the Build Your Own Wild Experience includes lunch, a coffee and cake voucher, 30-minute sessions with four different animals and their keepers and the rest of the day to roam about the zoo.Participants can feed the zoo's two Sumatran tigers - Dharma, seven, and eight-year-old Lucu - through a wire mesh fence from an area not accessible to the public.
The idea came from the success of £5,000 private tours set up during the final year of the giant pandas' residence in the capital city.left the zoo in December 2023 to return to ChinaThe zoo currently offers packages to get up closer with some animals but they are in groups and do not include four different animals or feeding the big cats.Another option on the bespoke tour is entering the penguin enclosure to feed them as well as stroke and possibly weigh a koala or hold an armadillo.
London Zoo offers "keeper" experiences with individual animals for around £95. Visitors can stay in a lodge in the zoo for around £200 a night.
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