Animal collection

At Hartpury, our students have access to over 70 domestic and non-domestic species on-site. There aren’t many places that you’ll have access to invertebrates, reptiles, livestock and exotic species.

We have several different animal homes on campus which students can access: 

• The Animal Management Centre works as a purpose-built teaching space for our Animal Management and Science students, as well as a vivarium with a wide range of reptiles, amphibians, and invertebrates. It also has a fully stocked aquatics room with a diverse assortment of tropical and coldwater fish, including piranha
• Our Walled Animal Garden is home to rodents, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets. meerkats, prairie dogs, and our giant Sulcata, Millie. It also features a teaching space and four fantastic aviaries
• Our orchard paddocks are home to wallabies, llamas, emus and rare bagot goats

Students also have access to the domestic species on our commercial farm and horses in our world-class equine facilities, including our Equine Therapy Centre.