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Linton Zoo, Cambridgeshire’s Wildlife Breeding Centre is the perfect place for a family outing whatever your age. There is also a coffee shop and gift shop.
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With a wealth of rare and exotic wildlife to see including Tigers, Lions, Tapirs, Lemurs, Owls, Parrots, Giant Tortoises, Tarantula Spiders and many others so there is always something exciting to see and do. The zoo is set in 18 acres of beautiful gardens with plenty of picnic areas. Free parking is within zoo grounds and there are children's play areas for all ages including a picnic area. Since opening in 1972, the Simmons family has built up a positive world wide reputation for its success with breeding endangered species and is especially respected for its work with animals often regarded as difficult. The zoo is also an important centre for environmental education, programmes on offer attract nursery groups up to University level.

03/11/2026

Here we are in November and our gardens and and woodland trails are still looking lovely!
Developing the gardens has always been important to us providing a nice natural environment for the many species we work with here at Linton and also providing habitats for native wildlife too. Many of the plants and flowers are grown to be harvested for forage and enrichment for our animals.
For our visitors the gardens engage all the senses through birdwatching, floral scents, and textures, while providing a calm space to share with family or friends.
It’s so nice to be enjoying an extended period of the summer planting.

We’re open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, visit our website for the best priced tickets or you can just turn up at the gates. The link is below.
https://www.lintonzoo.com/

01/11/2026

🥰BABY NEWS🥰
We are always proud to share news of births but when it is a species with a high risk of extinction in the wild it is especially exciting for our team.
Our Cotton-top tamarin pair Jayda and Inesperado have become parents for the fourth time.The whole family take care of the new babies, you can see that dad is so very pleased with his adorable twins
Cotton-top tamarins are from a small forested area of northwestern Colombia. In the late 60’s and early 70’s around 30,000 were taken from the wild for medical research. Today the most significant threat to their survival in the wild is human activity and deforestation, it is estimated that only five percent of its habitat remains. Their numbers are on decline and the IUCN rank the cotton-top tamarin as critically endangered with a high risk of extinction in the wild. Our pair are part of a managed European Breeding Programme or EEP
We’re open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, visit our website for the best priced tickets or you can just turn up at the gates. The link is below.
https://www.lintonzoo.com/

26/10/2026

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16/10/2026

Our hooded vulture chick has now left the nest, fully fledged and independent. Hooded vultures are classified as critically endangered by the IUCN and already extinct in some of their original range. Our birds are part of a EUROPEAN BREEDING PROGRAMME providing a safety net and aimed at saving them from total extinction. This is the sixth chick hatched at Linton.
In the wild they have experienced an extremely rapid population reduction for a number of reasons. This includes indiscriminate poisoning, illegal killing for trade in body parts for traditional belief based medicine with demand being greatest in Nigeria, collision and electrocution with energy infrastructure, habitat loss and degradation and destruction of suitable nest sites.
We are proud to be working with the Horstmann Trust with this amazing species, where in a few weeks time this youngster will be leaving us to join a mate of a similar age.
We are open over the weekend, our best priced tickets are available via our website https://www.lintonzoo.com/

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08/10/2026

Still time to book places at this great event!

05/10/2026

📷🥰We love to receive photos which our guests take of the gardens, native wildlife and the amazing species we work with.😃
Some of the best images we see are taken opportunistically on phones. Thank you Simon Heywood for sharing this fabulous selection from your visit to us yesterday!
We’re open Thursday to Sunday this week.
Visit our website for more information, click on the book tickets link for our best priced admission tickets and to see all available visiting days for September and October.
https://lintonzoo.com/
Or you can just turn up at the gates!

01/10/2026

Thank you James for sharing these lovely pictures of our beautiful lions on their 11th birthday.

26/09/2026

Sunset over Cambridgeshire.
An amazing sunset tonight with our two beautiful Hartmann’s zebra mares in the picture too!
Make the most of the lovely days for family outings, we’re open tomorrow and then Thursday to Sunday next week.
Visit our website for more information, click on the book tickets link for our best priced admission tickets and to see all available visiting days for September and October.

https://lintonzoo.com/

Or you can just turn up at the gates!

18/09/2026

🥰🥰 Beautiful image of our very lovely Marvine, White-cheeked turaco. Thank you Nicky Heywood for sharing with us.
Do you have a favourite bird you love visiting here? Please do share your photographs with us too.
We’re open Thursdays to Sundays, our best priced tickets are available via our website.
https://lintonzoo.com/
Have a great weekend from all of the team!

11/09/2026

Have you ever seen egg shells in the middle of no where and wondered where they have come from?
Interesting fact: Many bird species move their hatched egg shells, like this pigeon egg, away from their nest to decrease the possibility of a predator finding the hatchlings. This one is in our our tapir paddock.

Address

Hadstock Road
Linton
CB214NT

Website

http://www.lintonzoo.co.uk/

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