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Yaxley Loke, CROMER, NR27 0FG

New development by Roughton Road.

The shadow in the foreground is that of railway bridge 324 > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5323443 which carries the railway over the road.

View across the Flamingo Lagoon towards picnic area beyond > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883133. See also > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883124. After closure of the old Cromer Zoo > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/838872 in 1983, the new Zoo Park - called 'Amazona' - has finally opened its doors on 28th June 2007. It had taken two years to transform the ten acres of neglected woodland - surrounding an abandoned brick factory > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883179 and kilns > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883218 - into a zoo which now is home to a wide range of animals from tropical South America such as jaguar, otters, spider monkeys and flamingos. All the animals have come from other British zoos, none are imported from the wild. The zoo is expected to attract 50,000 visitors a year, and comes 25 years after the resort's previous zoo shut. The zoo has been developed by Ken Sims, owner of Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth.

From car park off Hall Road. After closure of the old Cromer Zoo > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/838872 in 1983, the new Zoo Park - called 'Amazona' - will soon be open to the public, featuring more than 80 species ranging from pumas and large rodents to piranhas, anaconda snakes and poisonous frogs. The zoo is expected to attract 50,000 visitors a year, and comes 25 years after the resort's previous zoo shut. The zoo has been developed by Ken Sims, owner of Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth.

One of the keepers with two of his charges - Brazilian tapirs (Tapirus terrestris). There are four species of tapir, all of which classified as endangered or vulnerable. The Brazilian tapir is the largest of the family, and the largest wild land animal in South America. Tapirs live near water and can be found in the Amazon rainforest and river basin but their range stretches from Venezuela, Colombia and the Guianas to Brazil, Argentina and Paraquay and to Bolivia, Peru and Ecuador. They resemble large pigs in shape but their closest relatives are horses and rhinoceroses. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tapir After closure of the old Cromer Zoo > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/838872 in 1983, the new Zoo Park - called 'Amazona' - has finally opened its doors on 28th June 2007. It had taken two years to transform the ten acres of neglected woodland - surrounding an abandoned brick factory > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883179 and kilns > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883218 - into a zoo which now is home to a wide range of animals from tropical South America such as jaguar, otters, spider monkeys and flamingos. All the animals have come from other British zoos, none are imported from the wild. The zoo is expected to attract 50,000 visitors a year, and comes 25 years after the resort's previous zoo shut. The zoo has been developed by Ken Sims, owner of Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth.

One of the inmates, a flamingo, standing in the duckweed-infested Flamingo Lagoon > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883118. Flamingos are large pink and red wading birds. They are related to and similar to heron, stork and spoonbill but have a longer neck; they have webbed feet and a uniquely shaped bill, which they use for scooping up aquatic plants and shellfish. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicopteriformes

On occasion of a wildlife survey bats were found to be inhabiting the former brick factory on the site, the ruined remains of which have been retained as a hibernaculum for bats whereas a number of the kilns now feature as a backdrop to one of the animal enclosures; they can be seen here through the wire mesh of an aviary. After closure of the old Cromer Zoo > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/838872 in 1983, the new Zoo Park - called 'Amazona' - has finally opened its doors on 28th June 2007. It had taken two years to transform the ten acres of neglected woodland - surrounding an abandoned brick factory > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883179 and kilns > http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/883218 - into a zoo which now is home to a wide range of animals from tropical South America such as jaguar, otters, spider monkeys and flamingos. All the animals have come from other British zoos, none are imported from the wild. The zoo is expected to attract 50,000 visitors a year, and comes 25 years after the resort's previous zoo shut. The zoo has been developed by Ken Sims, owner of Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens near Great Yarmouth.