It’s a new activity at the African Safari animal park, in Plaisance-du-Touch, near Toulouse. Visitors can feed the zoo’s giraffes and meerkats, a rare privilege …

Enter the intimacy of the giraffes, attend their lunch and even … feed them: this is a new activity for visitors to the animal park African safari, based in Plaisance-du-Touch, near Toulouse.

From December 18 until February 12, 2022, the zoo offers to get as close as possible to the largest and smallest mammals it has, namely giraffes and meerkats.

On the menu, bamboo for the giraffes, apples, worms, beans for the meerkats. “A lot of people were asking why we didn’t see the giraffes during the winter so it’s really to allow them to be seen all year round, and the meerkats, it’s a bit to make the difference because they are sentries. like giraffes but the smallest», Explains Sarah Péno, educational animator of the zoo.

For these privileged meetings, please note that reservations are required and the group is limited to four people.

LThe Plaisance-du-Touch zoological park has been managed by the same family since 1970: it has a walking park and an African safari of ten hectares, to be explored by car.