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
Poppy the Pitta
"Pitta Pitta Pitta... heeeerrrre Pitta Pitta Pitta". Oh hello there! I’m just in our beautiful Rainforest Aviary feeding out some live crickets and mealworms to some of our insect eating birds. I’m on the lookout for ‘Poppy’, our Rainbow Pitta, to make sure she gets her fair share. While I’m looking for her, let me tell you a little bit about these stunning ...read more
Pitta cruises through the rainforest aviary
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!
Kids Zoo Takes the Spotlight!
The Australia Zoo Entertainment Crew have expanded their daily schedule to include two daily shows in Kids Zoo.The ground work performed by the entertainment crew to prepare themselves for these shows involved:- 1. Working in the Kids Zoo in the morningsThis allowed time for the animals to become familiar with the entertainment crew and to build a trust to feel safe in their presence. This is impo...read more
The kids love the new daily shows!
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
Introducing Katie
Katie is one of two amazing Black Stripped Wallabies here at Australia zoo. Even though there are five different species of wallaby in Grey Roo Heaven (including Swamp Wallabies, Agile Wallaby and Black Footed Rock Wallabies) the Black Stripped Wallaby is the easiest to identify because they have a beautiful black strip that runs down their back along their spine. Katie is six-years-old and will b...read more
Katie relaxes with Claudia in Roo Heaven
Oh Baby!
It has been almost a year since Australia Zoo’s resident Black and White Ruffed Lemurs, Stephanie and Oscar, first met. After many an excited and flirtatious gaze at one another through the neighbouring enclosures, the two “love-birds-to-be” were finally allowed in the same enclosure together to go on their first official date! Well, things went so well that the date didn’t...read more
Oscar and Steph- more in love than ever!
Cunningham Skinks
Check this out! These little guys are called Cunningham Skinks. They are found in South-east Australia but we happen to have a group of our own for our guests to enjoy right here at Australia Zoo. Cunningham Skinks live in and around rock crevices. Being cold blooded they can absorb lots of heat from those big rocks. The heavy rocks also provide shelter from predators like birds of prey or other b...read more
Our skinks love soaking up the sun in their enclosure
Bonding with the Animals
As a rover, one of my favourite parts of the job is bonding with the animals and building up an amazing relationship. Sometimes, like people, animals will not take to some people but will love others. In the case of the cockatoo’s they decide who works with them and who doesn’t, and I am lucky enough to have been accepted by an amazing cockatoo named Anthony. A lot of my free time is s...read more
Luke loves bonding with our Common Wombats!
