Holiday Huskies At Living Coasts Aquarium

By Philip Knowling

Torquay, UK - Mush! Husky holiday at Living Coasts

The Christmas holidays at Living Coasts are as cool as the North – or South – Pole. There will be Christmas crafts, quizzes, artificial ice and snow – and teams of real live husky dogs.

Members of West Country Sled Dogs, a social network of people who share a passion for sled-dogs, will be bringing their dogs and their wheeled rigs to Living Coasts over the holidays. On selected days between Boxing Day and New Year, visitors will be able to meet friendly Siberian huskies and Alaskan Malamutes from 12:00 midday until 2:00pm. While the rigs don’t take passengers, visitors will be able to watch the experts mushing along the harbourside.

Living Coasts senior presenter Jess Bersey said: “This will be a fantastic opportunity for visitors to get up close and personal with these amazing dogs, learn about their history, see them in action and find out about the advantages - and disadvantages - of owning one.”

The midwinter fun at Torquay’s coastal zoo includes crafts and quizzes. Adults can make Christmas decorations and cards and create snow-scapes, while younger visitors will be able to make their own snowflakes. You will also be able to explore the properties of snow and ice by building ice castles, cracking open ice serpent eggs and making your own snow.

Meanwhile, Ping the penguin’s Christmas trail gives a fun insight into some of the environmental enrichment zoo keepers offer the penguins. Visitors can also see and touch artefacts from polar animals and learn how indigenous people relied on these animals for survival. On view will be a bear skull, reindeer skin, whale baleen and whale teeth and a walrus tusk.

Living Coasts, Torquay’s coastal zoo and discovery centre, is a registered charity. For more information go to www.livingcoasts.org.uk or ring (01803) 202470.

Living Coasts is a member of the British & Irish Association of Zoos & Aquariums (BIAZA). BIAZA represents its member collections and promotes the values of good zoos and aquariums. For further information please telephone 020 7449 6351.

www.paigntonzoo.org.uk
www.livingcoasts.org.uk

Paignton Zoo Environmental Park is a registered charity. Registered office: Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Totnes Road, Paignton, Devon TQ4 7EU. Registration number 792877. Registered charity number 300923. Place of incorporation: Companies House, Cardiff.