The Ice Age Returns To Shropshire!

Hoo Zoo and Dinosaur World prepare to open their brand new Ice Age area - "Land of the Beasts".

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00:10 We've got a new Ice Age exhibit that opens on the 1st of June.

00:15 We've got our preview night this coming Saturday, so there's still tickets available for that.

00:20 But yeah, we've got about nine animatronic Ice Age animals,

00:24 along with some real animals like the Eurasian lynx that were around in that time.

00:28 So it's to kind of bridge that gap really between the dinosaurs and modern day

00:32 and educate people a bit more about that.

00:34 Yeah, definitely, you obviously always hope it's going to have that sort of impact,

00:37 but I mean, realistically, the dinosaurs were a bit of a sort of lightning in a bottle.

00:42 It would be difficult to recapture that again.

00:44 But yeah, I mean, the Ice Age is still something we're quite passionate about.

00:48 And yeah, obviously we want it to be fun, but at the same time,

00:51 really sort of get kids kind of interested in these animals that used to exist,

00:54 particularly considering we've got the link to the Ice Age in Shropshire,

00:58 with the Condover mammoth and all the other stuff that you find in the area.

01:03 It's kind of like the unsung part of Shropshire, really.

01:06 So it's a walkthrough, and it sort of takes you from the time just after the dinosaurs.

01:11 So we all know the obvious Ice Age animals, such as the one in shot,

01:16 the woolly mammoth and the woolly rhino and stuff like that.

01:19 But it starts at the time just after the dinosaurs and tells you a little bit about

01:22 the weird and wonderful animals that were around then.

01:25 And then, yeah, as you walk through it, it sort of brings you up to, you know,

01:28 sort of the more modern day, being 10,000 years ago, what's just behind me,

01:31 and then obviously the modern day itself.

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