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Hours of fun, rain or shine!

Hello and welcome to the Tropiquaria website. Tropiquaria is a small tropical house and zoo in West Somerset, sixteen miles from Taunton and nine miles from Minehead. We are based in a 1930’s art-deco BBC transmitter hall, which is now a grade 2 listed bulding. A zoo has been run from this site since the early 1990’s and the current owners took over in 2007. Since then, efforts have been made to develop a slightly more African theme to the tropical hall and aquarium. As well as the animal displays, we have a number of other attractions based here. Including a Radio Museum, the Shadowstring Puppet Theatre, and a range of indoor and outdoor children’s play areas.

TROPIQUARIA ZOO

WASHFORD CROSS

WATCHET

SOMERSET

TA23 OQB

01984 640688

HOLIDAY OPENING HOURS

24th December 11am -4pm

25th and 26th Dec - Closed

27th Dec - 2nd Jan 11am - 4pm

info@tropiquaria.co.uk

Weston and Travis our White-fronted

Brown Lemurs and the story of how they

eventually arrived here at Tropiquaria

was featured on ITV’s “Wildlife Patrol”

on the 23rd August 2011. If you missed

this episode of a great wildlife series

you can still catch it on the ITV player

online by clicking on this “link”

Weston and Travis are father and son, and were rescued from an illegal animal dealer. They now live in a wonderful new spacious enclosure next to our Ring-tailed Lemurs

This enclosure could not have been created without the assistance of the students at Weston College, who built the dividing wall and play area, and the Williton branch of Travis Perkins who donated all the timber required.

In recognition of the help given by our friends at Weston College and

Travis Perkins, it was decided that we would name the lemurs after them. Hence the names “Weston” and “Travis”

Over 140 different species on display