Animal Diaries
Cheetah Camouflage
Cheetahs, like all animals, are made up of many important adaptations. One of the most important adaptations would be camouflage. To be able to blend in with the background while hunting or avoiding predators is a key skill used in the day to day life of a wild animal.Cheetahs have a beautiful coat made up of many different coloured hairs ranging from white, to yellow, to tan. These hairs are fin...read more
Spot the Cheetah!
New Beaut Bird
Bird Show would like to introduce you to the newest member of our elite flying team. Her name is Skylah and she is a beautiful Blue and Gold Macaw who is about seven months old. Skylah came to us from a registered breeder in Queensland in the hope that one day she will be the goddess to Queto, our number one male Blue and Gold Macaw. Since getting Skylah the whole bird show team has fallen in love...read more
Skylah is settling in nicely
Little boys with BIG voices!
G’day and welcome to another issue of the Birds Diary! The Bird team would like to introduce you to the newest members of our fabulous rainforest aviary. Their names are Ernie and Burt and they are the energetic Eastern Whipbirds.Ernie and Burt have come from down south in the hope that they will add to the magical rainforest feel using their explosive call. I have worked within the bird dep...read more
Carmen gets to know one of our new whipbirds
Winter Tidy Up
Welcome to another diary entry from the croc team here at Australia Zoo. This week were talking about maintenance and getting the environmental park and all of our croc enclosures looking schmicko! The days and nights are getting colder now as winter is upon us and with colder weather comes different jobs. The summer months bring the croc team lots of mowing to do in the enclosures but as it g...read more
The croc team have some hard work ahead
Elephant Demonstration
The next time you visit our Zoo, make sure you head up to Elephantasia to see our daily elephant demonstration at 12.40pm. This is the time of day when we like to give one of our elephants a bath, do some log work and feed them some lunch. During bath time, you will see them being hosed and scrubbed as well as demonstrating a few important behaviours such as laying down, picking up their feet an...read more
Team work!
An Otter Update
Back in February the exotics department welcomed Australia Zoo's resident Asian Small Clawed Otters, Bonnie and Maria. Nothing much has changed for the girls - they still live in the same exhibit, they still eat the same diet, basically all that has changed is the hands that now feed them. Bonnie and Maria are still full of energy and continue to get up to mischief and play tricks! The last th...read more
It's business as normal for our two cheeky otters!
New Arrivals!
Kids Zoo has welcomed in a bunch of new babies and they’re absolutely adorable! We have two new lambs and five little kids, all three weeks old and all boys-uh-oh! That means trouble! We’ve actually got a couple of "firsts" for Kids Zoo , two breeds that we’ve never had before... the two lambs are "Texels" and one of the kids is a "Melaan".Texel shee...read more
Soooo CUTE!
Big Bert!
This week I’d like to introduce you to Bert! Bert came to us three years ago from Ballarat and is now four years of age. Now one thing that is extra special about young Bert is that he is our only male southern koala here at the Zoo. Being a southern koala means Bert comes from the Southern New South Wales and Victoria regions of Australia. And if you take a good look at him you can notice t...read more
Bert is our big southern koala
Devils Rule!
Hi I’m Tammy, and I am the head of the Mammals Department here at Australia Zoo. There are some amazing animals that I am lucky enough to look after here, but the one closest to my heart is the Tasmanian Devil. At the Zoo we have four amazing devils: Jinki, Zeke, Zeehan and Mahlee, and I love to show them off! Often people are shocked when they see us keepers getting up close and giving them...read more
Tammy cuddles up to Jinki
Girl Power!
The social structure of these, energetic, amusing primates is quite different from most other primates. In the Ring-tailed lemur troop it is the females that are in charge and not the males. Wooo-hoo -one for the girls!! A troop consists of multi male and multi female groups which can number anywhere from four individuals up to 30. Now I might be biased as I am a female myself but I think that it...read more
Our cheeky little lemur boys!
Joel joins the team!
G’day folks! Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Joel and I’m the newest member of the Australia Zoo Reptile Crew. I am originally from Sydney and I have a background in agriculture. After working with poultry for a few years I decided it was time for a change, and looked in to pursuing my passion for reptiles. What better place to start than Australia Zoo!After being a part of th...read more
Joel is settling in well with all of our reptiles
Black and White Day
Today, May 16 2008, Australia Zoo is helping a young boy create awareness for Tasmanian Devils and their fatal Devil Facial Tumour Disease (DFTD). His name is Nature Nic and he is nine years old. With help from his family he has created a national awareness day aptly named “Black and White Day”. Nature Nic lives in Tasmania and has raised quite a lot of money towards Devil research. ...read more
One of our gorgeous Tassie Devils, Zeke
