Please note, due to COVID-19 restrictions, we have suspended the sale of date-specific tickets to this animal experience until further notice. However, you can purchase a non-date-specific voucher.
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Meet our giant Aldabra Tortoise, Aonika!
Step back in time and meet our prehistoric resident today.
You may even get the chance to hand feed our gentle giant some tasty snacks, or give her a scratch on the neck!
Aonika enjoys interacting with visitors and seeing keepers arrive with the red food bucket, moving towards it as fast as she can for a tasty treat.
Please note the minimum age for this experience is 8 years.
Highlights of this experience
- Get up close to our gorgeous giant tortoise, Aonika!
- Go behind the scenes in our Aldabra Tortoise habitat
Aldabra Tortoises can grow up to a metre long and have hard, protective shells that are made of 59 to 61 bones covered by plates (scutes).
