Meet the animals of Wild Wild Whipsnade

Visitors to ZSL Whipsnade Zoo are able to come face to face with lynx, brown bears, bison, and wolverine - the very animals they could once have bumped into in Britain’s rural woodland.

The Eurasian lynx is the largest wild cat in Europe. They were once quite common across the continent but, by the middle of the 19th century, they had vanished from most of Central and Western Europe.The smallest of the brown bear subspecies, European brown bears were probably present in Britain until the 10th century. Despite dying out here because of hunting, the species still exists in northeast Europe and in Russia.