Jungle Cat World Wildlife Park

Behind the Scenes tour is a package and you get to meet 3 animals and spend about 20 mins each. Cost: $ 90 per person.
Our appointment for Behind the Scenes tour was at 12 noon today. We thought we’d come 15 mins before 12, so we got there at 11:45. It helps the staff that we have all our paperwork done and signed in advance. Though we were fully prepared to go, unfortunately the person doing the behind the scenes with us wasn’t ready yet, and we’d have to wait about 10 – 15 more mins past our appointment schedule, but I didn’t really think much of it. They may be understaffed, but I am just really excited to start the tour.
So April was our guide for the Behind the Scenes Tour, we picked the Hyena, Serval Cat, and the Ring-​Tailed Lemur for our package. We met Ed (Hyena) and fed him granola while April fed him raw meat. I was told by April that some customers would change their mind upon seeing the Hyena as they get scared of it’s size, but really Ed is a sweetheart! Oh, and yes, he was really hungry, so I guess that was a good thing, he just focused on feeding.
Next we met Murphy, the Serval cat. We sat a few feet from her cage, and she just came over and sat on the grass with us. Serval cats can be pet anywhere on their body, unlike the Hyena which is off limits on the head part. I got too close-​up photos with the Serval cat, and at the end of it I was pretty much saying «I want one». Again Murphy’s really sweet and adorable.
Last but not the least, we got to meet the Ring-​tailed lemurs, and boy oh boy they jump on you like crazy! April has handed us another bowl of granola and the whole lemur family just started climibing on to our shoulders and arms trying to grab the granola bars in the bowl! They don’t really like petting, but they love being fed and climbing onto you. They climbed on my leg, desperate to get some food, they grabbed my fingers, my purse like beggars for food, and yes it was fun! I didn’t notice my time’s up as another couple’s turn now to meet the lemurs.
After we finished the Behind the Scenes tour around 1:10, we were advised that feeding time for animals is at 1:30 PM, so we grabbed something quick to eat at their small café. We got hotdogs (each hotdog about $ 4) and ate quickly before the feeding time started. I suggest to make sure to watch when they feed the animals as they also give you some background about the animals and their history and how they found them.
Over-​all I would say it was a good experience. I suggest really paying for the Behind the Scenes package to make the most out of your visit.
Quite a bit disappointed about the cleanliness of the washroom and the café, as there are flies everywhere on the condiments table, but other than that, I had fun. I will come back when the cubs have been born, hoping to get another Behind the Scenes tour with the lion/​tiger cubs.
Oh, and chicken just enter the cafeteria to chill. Not a big deal. They just like walking in like noone cares! :)

We came here today because we love cats. We didn’t know what to expect but we had an enjoyable time, despite the wet weather.
We arrived at around 12pm and it was raining pretty hard. We took shelter in a covered picnic table area, that’s next to the washrooms and gift shop/​café. When the rain subsided a bit, we went outside to look at the animals. The place is quite small but you get really close to the animals and can get a really good look at them. Much better than a regular zoo. We saw tigers, lions, pumas, jaguars, leopards, bobcats, wolves, monkeys, rabbits, goats, foxes and lemurs. Then there’s a lot of free roaming peacocks, chickens, geese, ducks, water fowls. We had a really good time looking at all the animals. You wouldn’t spend all day here but it’s good for a couple of hours.
They actually have really good breeding programs here and the animals are just not for people to look at. Gave the kids a chance to look at some pretty rare big cats. They have a feeding and talk at 1.30pm everyday. It was interesting to walk around with the keeper and watch the animals eat. She was knowledgeable and gave us some info on the animals too.
It costs $ 20 for adult admission but I purchased a Wag Jag. It was only $ 25 for a family of 5. Groupon has this identical offer on too. I would highly recommend a visit here. Great for adults and children who like animals.

Tips:
–Feeding tour starts at 1:30, and lasts about 40min. If you are visiting the park, you should come at this time. Basically the keeper goes to 7 of the animals and feeds them, while providing some details about each animal. It’s pretty interesting; and also quite entertaining to watch some of them (particularly the lion and tiger) eagerly wait for its food.
–Saw some guy get sprayed by the tiger. Didn’t even know this happened. A quick google search indicated that this was urine (gross)! So don’t get too close to the tiger, especially before its meal time.
–Parking lot is reasonably big
–There is lots and lots of duck crap on floor. So don’t wear your nicest shoes
This place is fairly small. I actually wouldn’t recommend it, because its about an hour drive from Toronto, so there’s a good chance that you will spend more time driving the round trip than you do at the venue.
Still, I’m giving 3 stars because the animals do appear to be happier/​in better condition than I’ve seen at some zoos (eg the Los Angeles Zoo). Also you do get to stand quite close to the animals.

A great zoo! It’s small and only $ 20 admission for adults. They don’t only have cats, there’s also goats, chickens lemurs, wolves, etc.
Get there before 1:30pm! They do the afternoon feedings and the animals are the most active. You can follow the handler while they feed the animals. If you show up after feeding time, you will see many animals in food comas.
For $ 90, you can meet animals up close. Check their website for the animals available to up close encounters.
You can get a lot closer to the animals here than you can at the Toronto Zoo. I’m not saying it’s lax or unsafe, it actually makes it a better experience to see these beautiful animals.
Great place for family fun!

For the admission price, this is certainly a deal. It’s like $ 5 – 6 a person, depending on who you are, and comparing it to something like Reptilia, I’d rather come here. The enclosures are quite close to the visitor fence, so the animals can be quite close to visitors. That’s exciting. It’s not every day you get to stand a few feet away from a tiger, even if there is a fence between you and it.
There are a number of species, big cats and otherwise, at this zoo, but they don’t exhibit all the animals they claim to have on their site at once. There were a number of animals that weren’t on display. Upon checking their site a second time, I noticed that although the description on the heading says that one can expect to see the following species at the zoo, it also says in the subheadings that all the invertebrates and the amphibians/​reptiles are for wildlife education programs only, and those are add-​ons to the regular admission price. What I found rather thrilling, despite the lack of number of species, was the variety they had for their specialty: big cats. I know snow leopards are rather endangered, and that I’ve been to a number of zoos in the Toronto area and otherwise, and have never seen one. For under $ 10, I saw one. They actually have two. It’s rather cool.
They have multiple feeding demonstrations. The first feeding tour involves big cats. The second, I’m not so sure. For the big cat feeding tour, one goes from enclosure to enclosure as a zoo keeper describes the big cat, then feeds them a chicken or something like that. It allows the visitors to see behavior in the cats that they might not otherwise see. The downside is that the visitors have to go from enclosure to enclosure to see the various feedings, and usually, this means a mad scramble to get to the next enclosure to ensure that one gets a good spot to view the feeding.
I really do wish this zoo was larger. It has two bathroom stalls for females. I think that covers all the public washrooms for females this zoo has. I could be wrong. Perhaps I didn’t see one of the public washrooms. What I do know is that the zoo only took 45 minutes to go around with four kids, and we didn’t do any running. We stopped, admired, and took pictures.
This is good for a half-​day trip, but don’t expect to want to spend the whole day here on regular admission.
Ah. One more thing. Poop. There’s a lot of poop. Goose poop, other animal (deer?) poop. They have a playground area with sand pits. Also goose poop. Animal poop is one of my biggest pet peeves. Yeah. That made things a tad… difficult.

This place should be closed down. Seriously! It makes me wonder about people who think this place is ok? The animals are stressed and live in tiny cages. If you think caging a wild animal in a tiny pen is your idea of a good time then you’ll love this place. If you actually have a heart the you will agree that this place should be closed. Gone are the days of places like this… except to satisfy your own selfish needs of touching a magnificent animal that should be free or at least given space to roam and live a decent life, I believe in education and conservation but not with dumps like this.

Lady walks a young lion around the park where peacocks, goats and donkeys are freely chilling… then she starts to play with the lion tickling.
Hung around to see the friendly and educated staff feed the cats whole chicken and explaining what they do and about these furry friends.
There were also white foxes and other wild animals, its a mini zoo.
The cafeteria was decent. Loved the Parrots, Cookie and Sarge specially Cookie. If there’s a volunteer hanging around there, might let you carry the birds and play with them.
This place also allows visitors to feed tiger cubs and other wild cubs and have a photo session for a extra cost. Great for young kids. Over night camping also available.
I prefer this place over the Toronto Zoo if you are taking your kids. Since its much smaller, many farm animals and birds hanging out with the crowds for selfies. The feeding time and Cookie will make your kids more excited and keep them entertained.

We went here for a dear friend’s birthday in winter and were not disappointed. A great variety of exotic animals and the staff and handlers were very knowledgeable and friendly. Would recommend to anyone with kids and/​or loves animals!

Initially, I felt extremely confused/​ashamed with myself for waking up/​regaining consciousness in this place, on such a dismal day. I felt as a mighty black panthercat might, upon seeing the first snowfall in his strange new home, so far from his mighty jungle kingdom. I also was far from home, with only the fuzziest Instagram-​like recollections of the previous night prowling in my pounding head. I remember sunlight shining through dust and a pint glass, the neon hum of a submarine sandwich shop, an insurance broker named Marlissa, the cramped and swaying washroom of a Go-​train, the cramped and swaying laundry room of a suburban home, running through an industrial mall with a bottle of Canadian Club Rye Whiskey… and that’s about it. Where is Orono, Ontario anyhow? These sullen beasts are of no help. But they are magnificent and I feel a strong kinship with them. Four stars!

Overall this zoo was fun for an afternoon. As mentioned I feel if you’re doing a program through the zoo it is where you will be having a more memorable experience. Also unless you are particularly interested in seeing the big cats you may find your money better spent elsewhere.

What an awesome place to take kids and any animal lover. The Zoo is open to public until 5 pm. At 5 pm and anytime through the night your family is able to walk alone through the zoo .It was pretty cool to go out with my son in our pjs at 11 so we could so the lion roar and a lot more movement from animals who move more at night.
It is basically a small apt you rent for the night. Upon arrival they give you a bottle of homemade red wine with a junglecat world label. There is a queen bedroom and a pullout couch in livingroom.
The Lions Den was the room we rented and it had a balcony overlooking the zoo. Also out the bathroom window overlooked the wolfs area and the cage for a baby tiger and monkey. The monkey was a little bugger and kept teasing the baby tiger… pretty funny to watch.
Definately bring scented candles (they do supply some cheap ones) because you ARE staying in a place full of animals you must expect a slight odour. I had 3. living room bedroom bathroom seemed to keep it at bay.
For an extra $ 75 on top of the $ 250 Lions Den room rental we got to choose from over 20 baby animals to get a family pic with… the leemer «Guido» was my fave. BUT the wolf and baby tiger were equally amazing.

I must admit after reading the reviews I was very exited about this park but right now I am extremely disappointed at this. The entrance fee is 15 $, the park itself is very small. There were hardly any roads, due to the melting snow it was very difficult to walk and soon our shoes were filled with mud and got wet. There is nothing much in the park, you can cover it in an hour and a half max. Worse still there was nobody around in the park apart from the lady at the counter. All in all a pretty bad experience. I found it too expensive and poorly maintained.

Who knew that somewhere next to Peterborough, 1hr away from Toronto, there is a awesome zoo!
They have lions, tigers (no bears, oh my!), leopards, wolves, more tigers, lynxes, monkeys, birds. Also goats, donkeys and llamas that wander around and you can get up close and personal with them!
Admission is $ 15 and it’s quite a good price for the amount of things you can see. Stay for the daily feeding at 1:30pm, where the zoo keeper takes you on a tour of all the big cats, and feeds them (with whole chicken and ribs, donated by Sobeys) and tells you all about them. We saw a snow leopard!
What I wish I knew ahead of time that you can get a group together and have a private session with the zookeepers and time to cuddle and play with tiger, lynx, skunk, otter and another big cat (i forget) — pick 3. We saw some groups playing with the tiger cub and it was the cutest thing. It’s $ 100 per group minimum donation, and extra $ 25 per person, includes the admission to the zoo. If you get 5+ people that’s like $ 45 for some private time with animals! So much better experience with than the zoo at the same price.
Apparently this was also training for the cubs to learn to like humans. They also take them to shows and schools so that they like the affection and applause. This helps when they get older and a permanent exhibition, and they actually want to hang out and see the people. It’s nice they have a program like that.
I will totally come back for this ‘behind the scenes’ one day. Great for kids!

This place is great for a day trip from Toronto. The zoo is spacious and has many cute creatures running about on the loose (donkeys, deer and ducks) as well as several big cats in cages. Wolves pace and you can climb the wolf howl tower to see if they’ll howl back at you.
Everything feels so much more interactive here compared to other zoos I’ve visited. The animals here are often right in front of your face, behind a simple green chain link fence. Sea otters see you and want to play, a monkey might come up and try to kiss you, a deer even came and licked my hand. Adorable things.