Sheila and Philip – Knuti's Magazine

Aysa and her cubs are doing fine in YWP

13 September 2024 admin 0

13.9.2024 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker Mum Aysa, 3, and her cubs Emi, Santa and Teddi have had a wonderful Summer in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park. As you remember they were rescued from […]

Sisu welcomes the Summer season

21 May 2024 admin 0

21.5.2024 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker Terve! Hello! It’s your Sisu in the Yorkshire Wildlife Park calling again. Although I love the Winter the Summer season has it’s good sides. The grass and […]

Ukrainian Lions Make Their Debut Outside in Lion Country

13 May 2024 admin 0

13.5.2024 – Source: Yorkshire Wildlife Park, Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker An immense 2,000 mile journey from Donetsk to Doncaster has led to this incredible moment. Mum, Aysa, and her 3 cubs, Emi, Santa, […]

Birds and Bears in Yorkshire

6 April 2024 admin 0

6.4.2024 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker We start this photo presentation with some morning gymnastics with Hamish. The big boy is very agile thanks to the exercises. Does the bird think it’s my […]

Ode to beautiful mama Flocke

19 February 2024 admin 0

19.2.2024 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker Who would have imagined that the little hand raised cubbie Flocke would become an excellent mother to her four kids. Flocke is a very beautiful polar bear […]

Cosy living in Yorkshire

29 January 2024 admin 0

29.1.2024 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Although the weather has been cold it hasn’t been snowing in Yorkshire. However, the animals in the park are enjoying the cosy lazy snowless days anyway. May I […]

White cosmopolars on the green grass

12 July 2022 admin 0

12.7.2022 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker The Women’s Euro 2022 is going on in England. Maybe you’re wondering which team our polar bear friends in Yorkshire are cheering? Because they all are cosmopolitans […]

Hazy lazy days of Summer

29 June 2022 admin 0

29.6.2022 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker Flocke’s two sons have now been moved across to live in project polar 1 (kept separately from the others for a while) and Hamish in particular seemed […]

Indiana, Yuma and Tala on their own

25 May 2022 admin 0

25.5.2022 – Photos by Sheila and Philip Baker Flocke is enjoying her well deserved vacation from cub raising and her kids Indiana, Yuma and Tala are coping with the separation from mama very well. The […]

Sisu and Nobby – the jolly good fellows

1 May 2022 admin 0

1.5.2022 – Photos by Sheila Baker I’ve had the great pleasure and privilege to meet both Sisu (in Ranua) and Nobby (in Munich) when they were still small cubs. It’s wonderful to see these lovely […]