A chance to see animals rarer than giant pandas and mountain gorillas opens up to Northumberland visitors from this weekend.
All they have to do is head to a location where many would fear to tread, as the beasts reside in the grounds of a castle that has topped the UK's most haunted list on more than one occasion. Though Chillingham Castle is complete with a dungeon, torture chamber and magnificent state rooms, its herd of wild cattle show a different side to the popular north Northumberland attraction, which dates back as far as the 12th century - and tours to visit the creatures start up again this Good Friday.
Despite there being more than 1 billion cattle across the globe, the Castle's white cows are the only herd of ancient wild cattle left in the world. Survivors of herds that once roamed the forests of Britain, the cows, bulls and calves are just as they would have been 700 years ago.
