Sutton's 11th Birthday Celebration
- 5th May 2025
- 12pm - 12:45pm
Join us on Bank holiday Monday as we celebrate Sutton's 11th Birthday!
📅 Date: Monday 5th May
⏰ Time: 12pm
📍 Location: Outside of the Elephant Eden habitat, to the left of the Elephant house.
If you missed it last year, here was Sutton's Birthday celebration from when he turned 10 years old!
Officially opened by HRH Princess Anne a decade ago, our world leading elephant facility covers an area of 20 acres with a wide range of state-of-the-art features including a pool, large heated indoor barn with sand yards and water sprinklers, expansive fields and a large willow plantation - Elephant Eden was designed to provide a natural and spacious environment for elephants to foster their physical and mental well-being. Elephant Eden is home to four African elephants, Shaka, Janu, Uli and Sutton.
The facility provides a much-needed support for the European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) for African elephants, offering an extensive environment for individual males to live and integrate into a multi-generational group where they can learn from each other and exhibit natural behaviours. Habitats like Elephant Eden are crucial to the successful and healthy management of African elephants as a part of the wider zoo community, in recognition of the differing social and spatial needs of male and females.
You can hear more about Sutton, Uli, Janu and Shaka, as well as their habitat at Sutton's birthday talk!
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