Seal & Penguin Coasts

Seal & Penguin Coasts

Seal & Penguin Coasts enables visitors, for the first time, to come face-to-face with penguins and seals in their natural element - beneath the waves - through transparent underwater walkways. With its exceptional views, landscaped beaches, cliffs and amazing shipwreck, Seal & Penguin Coasts is the most exciting animal exhibit in the South West.

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We currently have African penguins in the seal and penguin coast, which are threatened in the wild and are in a co-ordinated conservation breeding programme.

An aviary suspended from masts on the 'shipwreck' over the penguin pool provides a home for Inca terns and eider ducks.

The South American fur seals are in a separate pool from the penguins: each area features beaches, rocky cliffs and a wave machine!

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Who is at home here

Good News
Dr David Bellamy opened the new £2 million 'Seal and Penguin Coasts' on Monday 12 July 1999. The project is the biggest and most exciting that the Zoo has ever undertaken.

Dr Bellamy said, "The only place we can come and understand the wonder of these animals is in a place like this. Seal & Penguin Coasts is amazing, and way before its time, this is an immense step forward. Good zoos are the only good news we really have on the conservation horizon."