Visitors to the Wild Place Project on Blackhorse Hill have been treated to recent glimpses of three baby wolverines leaving their nests and now staff have shared new photos of them receiving their first health checks. The kits - one boy and two girls - have been spending much of their time in the nests their mother, Alice, has made for them.
But visitors waiting patiently have been able to spot the tiny trio, who are aged around a month old, when their mother occasionally carries them outside. They are Alice's second litter, following the birth of female Eunice in 2022 - she recently celebrated her first birthday.
The new family five, which also includes father Novo, live in the Wild Place Project's Bear Wood exhibit, where visitors can also find European brown bears, wolves and a family of four lynx. Joe Norman, senior animal keeper at Wild Place Project, said: "They were born around a month ago, however mum has kept them hidden inside the nest box where she has been feeding them and keeping them warm until they were strong enough to come outside."
