Kingut celebrated with a banana, apple and carrot cake 🎂
A Malayan tapir who calls the UK home has officially been recognised as the oldest of his kind in captivity in the Guinness World Records.
She said: ‘Kingut is definitely the friendliest and most people-oriented of our tapirs and gets lots of fuss every day.‘If he sees any of the other tapirs getting attention, he gets jealous!’ Over the next 27 years the lovable mammal moved between Port Lympne and sister park, Howletts to take part in breeding programmes for endangered animals, managed by The Aspinall Foundation.
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