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Oaklawn Farm Zoo 
Deer at Oakland Farm ZooDate opened 1984 Location Aylesford, Nova Scotia, Canada Land area 50 acres (20 ha)[1] Major exhibits lions, monkeys, Siberian tigers Website oaklawnfarmzoo.ca The Oaklawn Farm Zoo is a zoo located in Aylesford, Nova Scotia, Canada. It was opened in 1984, and is family-owned and operated by Ron and Gail Rogerson. The zoo boasts the largest display of Big Cats and Primates in Eastern Canada. At the zoo, there are no male lions. The 50-acre (20 ha) zoo is in a rural setting in Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley, and includes a wide diversity of mammals, birds and reptiles.
As Nova Scotia’s largest zoo, Oaklawn has a large variety of endangered and threatened species of exotic, native and domestic breeds of animals. Children can feed corn to the animals and the zoo has a restaurant and gift shop. The 7:00PM Feeding Time for the big cats and bears is a popular zoo attraction. Owner Gail Rogerson enters the cages of these animals and will hand feed them meat that is collected from local farms and surrounding areas.
The zoo is open Easter weekend through November, and closed to the public during the winter.[1]
Animals
Rutledge was born at the zoo in 1991 and hand raised. At 4 years, he set the world record for worlds heaviest lion in captivity at 807 pounds (366 kg). He was euthanized in February 2009 just short of his 18th birthday, and buried at the zoo.[2]
List of animalsAnimals include:
- Capybara
- Mara
- Pot-bellied pig
- North American Porcupine
- Crested Porcupine
- Brazilian Agouti
- Dromedary Camel
- Bactrian Camel
- Frilled Chicken
- Meerkat
- African Lion
- Siberian Tiger
- Rose hair tarantula
- Zebra Tarantula
- Goliath Birdeater
- Eastern Painted Turtle
- Red-Footed Tortoise
- Tokay Gecko
- Squirrel Monkey
- Green Iguana
- Common Marmoset
- Straw-coloured Fruit Bat
- Spider Monkey
- Snowy Owl
- Barred Owl
- Great Horned Owl
- Common Raven
- American Black Bear
- Masked Lovebird
- Burmese Python
- Japanese Macaque
- Lion Tailed Macaque
- Rhea
- Australian Black Swan
- Llama
- Indian Peafowl
- Alpaca
- Guanaco
- Zonkey
- cougar
- Plains Zebra
- Ostrich
- Common Snapping Turtle
- Bald Eagle
- Jaguar
- Serval
- Leopard Cat
- Caracal Lynx
- House Cat
- Ferrets
References
- ^ a b "Oakland Park Zoo". oaklawnfarmzoo.ca. Oakland Farm Zoo. http://oaklawnfarmzoo.ca/. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
- ^ "Record-setting Canadian zoo lion dies". upi.com. United Press International, Inc.. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/02/06/Record-setting-Canadian-zoo-lion-dies/UPI-73641233945997/. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
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