Last updated 13:45, Monday, 27 October 2008

IT’S trick or treat time for both residents and visitors to South Lakes Wild Animal Park in Dalton.

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Over the next week visitors can look forward to seeing animals, great and small, grapple, stomp, lick, kick and munch traditional Halloween produce.

The hippos, mandrills, spectacled bears and kangaroos will have a goat apple bobbing, and pumpkins will be fed to a range of animals from tamarins to giraffes.

Take your own pumpkin or arrive in fancy dress to get into the park free and join the spooky fancy dress parade from outside the cafe every day at 3.30pm.

Enter the restaurant if you dare and come face-to-face with Dracula and his bride in the spiders’ lair. The animals will also get in on the Halloween action with some seasonal treats of their own.

The baby rhinos, Zimba and Nyala, will celebrate Halloween for the first time.

Visitors will still be able to hand feed the giraffes, lemurs, penguins and various animals throughout the park at the regular times.

South Lakes Wild Animal Park has once again issued more than 7,000 free children’s tickets to local schools for use this October half term.

Every primary school in Barrow, Dalton and Ulverston has been offered free children’s tickets to the park worth £28,000.

The Halloween activities run until Sunday.