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Welcome to the Cango Wildlife Ranch and Valley of Ancients, endangered species breeding facility extraordinaire. The oldest and biggest cheetah contact centre worldwide offers visitors the rare opportunity of interacting with our hand reared cheetahs and getting actively involved in saving this species and others from extinction.
We invite you and the whole family to pay us a visit and explore the facts and fiction surrounding crocodiles, view elegant cheetahs and giggle at the antics of our Bengal tiger cubs. For the adventurous we offer face to face encounters with wildlife in our Natural Encounters programe where you can touch a cheetah, enjoy the closeness of a tiger cub, wrap yourself in a python and even dive with Nile crocodiles.
Without you, the visitor, facilities like the Cango Wildlife Ranch would not be possible and without facilities like ours, wildlife will become yet another issue we wished we had paid more attention to when it was still possible.
Run the race against extinction with us whilst having the time of you life – Welcome to Cango Wildlife Ranch the conservation heart of the Little Karoo!
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Two rare and proudly South African White lion cubs took up residency at the Ranch and are now part of our Natural Encounters program! Little Tribe and Sindile arrived via their own private jet from the Lanseria Lion Park in the Northern Province and landed on Oudtshoorn airport.
Tribe and Sandile are an unrelated male and female and we hope to start a breeding program with the two within a couple of years. Up until then, we are enjoying their playfulness as well as the honor of having white lions at the Ranch to ensure their future bloodline and thrill visitors. Please take the time to read more about white lions on our Meet our Animals page and make acquaintance with Tribe and Sandile on a more personal level. |
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Here is a little sneak peek of what you can expect with the completion of Valley of Ancients Phase 2:
Valley of Ancients will include all of the following:
- A tropical house with giant fruit bats, shy duiker, birds of paradise and a breathtaking underwater viewing section where rainbow-colored fish will dazzle you;
- A Malawian forest exhibit filled with Red River hogs and giant monitor lizards;
- A Vulture exhibit with endangered Cape vultures and Marabou storks;
- Lemur island where you can glimpse the rare Madagascar ring-tailed lemurs and pink flamingos;
- The only Croc Cage Diving pool in the world;
- Pygmy Hippo Village where Herbert and Hilda will keep you company;
- Otter Waterfall with our two spotted-necked otters frolicking in the water;
- Ground Hornbill exhibit where you can look these large birds in the eye.
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The ever-popular Cheetahland includes the following:
- Our white lion cubs, Tribe and Sindile are rare, blond and beautiful;
- The cheetah enclosures where our hand-reared cheetah will steal your heart;
- Bitten, our magnificent jaguar;
- Charlie the lion and his three angels;
- Four white Bengal tigers and their trainers giving you the only Tiger Presentation in Africa where trainers actively work with adult tigers.
And these are only the things you will encounter on your guided tour. Not included on your tour but definitely included in your entrance ticket is:
Family Fun
- An interactive lorikeet aviary where you are able to walk amongst these colorful, inquisitive birds;
- The Wallaby Walkabout granting you access to little wallabies hopping around just waiting for you to feed them;
Restaurants
- Grunts Restaurant – our all new forest themed fast food restaurant with its large deck;
- Nyami Nyami Café offering you everything from sweets and chocolates to the daily newspaper;
Children’s Playground
- Climbing wall, leopard lounge, jumping castle, water park, sandpits
- Jungle Jims where you can set your children free to play in our tiny tots area specially designed with your toddlers’ safety in mind or
- The splash zone for your older children wanting a little more excitement.
Farmyard
- Make friends with our friendly Goats, bunnies, chickens and pigs
With names like Dinkum Tucker, Kuranda Forrest and Zimbakwe Ruins you can only imagine the wonder world of interactive adventure that awaits you on your next visit.
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A New ginger tigress named Thandi arrived at the Cango Wildlife Ranch Friday, 8 September from her Johannesburg home at the Johannesburg Lion and Rhino Park.
Thandi carries the white gene and the possibility that she and Rajah, our white male, will produce white offspring is a very strong one. At the moment Thandi is still getting used to her new environment and making acquaintance with our male, Rajah and we hope to have tiger cubs at the Ranch in the very near future. | |
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Although the Thandi might still take a while before she produces cubs, the endangered Madagascar ring-tailed lemurs had no such problems and the female gave birth to 3 babies on Saturday morning, 9 September. The tiny babies are kept close to her stomach and every now and then visitors and staff can have a glimpse at them. The female and her babies are doing very well and are still sharing their enclosure with the rest of the lemur family. | |
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The stork surprised staff at the Cango Wildlife Ranch’s cheetah breeding center on Wednesday morning, 27 September with the delivery of no less than six cheetah cubs to proud cheetah mother, Bianca.
Bianca is one of 21 adult cheetahs resident at the Cango Wildlife Ranch’s breeding center that strives to conserve and protect Africa’s fastest land mammal. Over the years more than 150 cubs have been born at this breeding center but it is indeed a rare occurrence when a female gives birth to a litter of six cubs. Under normal circumstances these cats will only give birth to 3 – 4 young but Bianca surprised us all with six healthy cubs, a record for our facility
The cubs will stay with their mother for the next two weeks after which they will be hand-raised by the Ranch’s Animal Trainers and will be incorporated into our Natural Encounters program by the end of November 2006. | |
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