As Wild as Life gets!
Crikey! It's as wild as life gets at Australia Zoo's new open-range exhibit - Africa! Open NOW you can see the only multi species exhibit in Queensland.
Step on board the FREE* Africa Safari Shuttle and experience the only Giraffe and Zebra in Queensland and keep your eyes peeled for our brand new baby Rhino!
Crikey Cam!
Check out Crikey Cam, our latest and greatest way for you to enjoy everything that's amazing and thrilling at Australia Zoo! Crikey Cam is the idea behind our new TV advertising campaign, but it's even more than that. It's a brand new window to the inner workings of Australia Zoo, offering a fresh and unique perspective on what our awesome animals, keepers and visitors get up to every day! Crikey Cam - it's all up close and personal, it's a thrill a minute, and it's as wild as life gets!
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Australia Zoo has a big baby on the way!
15 May 2012
Wooo-hoo! The Zoo Crew has some wonderful news to share with the world, are you ready? Australia Zoo is set to welcome a big baby into the world, a baby rhino that is!
Inyeti, one of our gorgeous 2000kg rhinos is expecting her first calf to... -
Happy first birthday Savannah!
13 April 2012
"Happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you look like a rhino aaaand... you smell like one too!"
Our gorgeous little Savannah the southern white rhino had her first birthday yesterday and crikey did she celebrate in style, being treated to a... -
Garmin leads the way for technology in the field
31 March 2012
Garmin is a company delivering innovative GPS technology across diverse markets; but did you know they are also providing groundbreaking technology assistance to Australia Zoo's supported conservation projects?
Australia Zoo has partnered with... -
Getting to Know Sally the Giraffe
02 February 2012
Its been a great summer so far for Africa with our newest paddock member Sally the giraffe having made her public debut a week or so before Christmas.
Sally came from Monarto Zoo in South Australia and spent a few months in a quiet area off display... -
Australia Zoo voted Best Attraction & Best Eco Holiday!
14 January 2012
The results are in. Australia Zoo has been voted the Best Attraction and Best Eco Holiday in the 2012 Best of Australian Travel People's Choice Awards, featured in Out & About With Kids magazine.
Voters were impressed by our gorgeous animals... -
NEW walking track to African savannah
23 December 2011
Giraffes, rhinos and zebras are now just a hop, skip and a jump away, with a new walking track to Australia Zoo's Africa exhibit opening on Boxing Day.
The new 700m track means our guests have the option to experience the African savannah at their...
- Adopt Rosie the Giraffe
- Adopt Forrest the Giraffe
- Adopt Penny the Giraffe
- Adopt Sally the Giraffe
- Adopt Caballe the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Savannah the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt DJ the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Jabari the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Kei the Southern White Rhinoceros
- Adopt Echo the Cheetah
- Adopt Foxtrot the Cheetah
- Adopt Sheeba the Cheetah
- Adopt Stevie the Zebra
- Adopt Michael the Zebra
- Adopt Zac the Zebra
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Cheeky Cheetah Encounter
Check out our cheeky cheetahs up close and personal
Check out our cheeky cheetahs up close on a cheetah encounter!
While you enjoy this amazing experience, one of our professional photographers will capture this incredible... -
Ripper Rhinos
Get face-to-face with a two tonne Rhino in a rare Ripper Rhino Encounter!
What a ripper! Get face-to-face with a two-tonne rhino in this rare, once in a lifetime encounter.
You may even get to give an amazing White Rhino a little scratch and pat in our behind-the-scenes paddocks right here at Australia Zoo while you... -
Giant Giraffe Tour
You can now take a tour of our amazing Giraffe compound
Africa is coming to Australia Zoo in September 2011, but you can have the chance to meet the tallest land animal in existence, the Giraffe.
Even before 'Africa' opens. Wooo-hoo! With males reaching heights of 5.5 metres (18 ft) and weighing up to... -
Cheetah Back of House Tour
An awesome behind the scenes tour of their home
Come check out our Cheeky Cheetahs on an awesome behind the scenes tour of their home. Chat to the keepers and learn all about how amazing the fastest land animal on earth really is. You will get to see them in their enclosure while doing some... -
Cheeky Cheetah Snapshots
Come have a photo with our Cheeky Cheetah
Come have a photo with a Cheeky Cheetah. How many people get the chance to get right up close to a cheetah? Well here at Australia Zoo, you can get so close you may hear them...
The threat
With only 9,000 to 12,000 cheetahs left in the wild, this magnificent species has become critically endangered due to loss of habitat and cheetah-human conflict. Conflict occurs when cheetahs are wrongly blamed for livestock losses and subsequently killed by angry farmers.
How we help
Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors is working in partnership with De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust and Cheetah Outreach, both located in South Africa. Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors works with each organisation to support cheetah releases, tracking, monitoring and local education to reduce the cheetah-human conflict.
Through vital research and the facilitation of a cheetah tracking program, De Wildt and Cheetah Outreach have found that the cheetah is a nomadic animal and often only crosses the same property once every two weeks, proving to farmers that a cheetah may not even be in the area when their livestock has been killed.
This information is helping to change the tide and is producing a number of ‘cheetah friendly' farmers. In exchange for a small fee, these friendly farmers contact De Wildt when a cheetah is located on their property, and rather than killing the animal, they assist De Wildt to capture and relocate the cheetah to a safe area.
To date, De Wildt Cheetah and Wildlife Trust have successfully relocated over one hundred wild cheetah. The cheetah are fitted with a radio collar and tracking system, which send SMS messages containing regular location reports and updates, allowing us to further learn about the habits of this magnificent creature.
Funds raised through Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors also support the Anatolian Shepherd Dog Program, a non-lethal method of managing predators and promoting a much happier co-existence between cheetah and farmer.
The Anatolian Shepherd Dog Program provides farmers with an Anatolian Shepherd dog, a large, noble and powerful livestock guardian. From six weeks of age, these incredibly intelligent and brave dogs are raised exclusively with their herd and trained to protect them from any prying predators. Standing at an impressive 70cm tall, their job is to bark to scare any predator that may come within close range of their flock. Being a timid and shy creature, cheetahs are quick to retreat from a barking dog, resulting in a win-win situation for both the cheetah and farmer. Farmers in South Africa can now allow their dog to guard the livestock and not be encouraged to shoot or kill the cheetah when seen in the area. This program is at no cost to the farmers.
We are proud to assist the efforts of these crucial programs in securing the future of this threatened and truly magnificent big cat.
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Australia Zoo has a big baby on the way!15 May 2012
Wooo-hoo! The Zoo Crew has some wonderful news to share with the world, are you ready? Australia Zoo is set to welcome a big baby into the world, a baby rhino that is!
Inyeti, one of our gorgeous 2000kg rhinos is expecting her first calf to first-time dad, DJ.
Inyeti's has hit Australia Zoo with the most exciting news of the year and the next 16 months is certainly going to be a long wait for her excited keepers.
Inyeti is a six-year-old southern white rhino and is the first successful conception for Australia Zoo's rhino breeding program which comes just one year after the birth of 60kg Savannah to mum Caballe.
For Robert, Bindi and Terri Irwin, it was a special Mother's Day surprise.
"It is huge news for us, being the first baby for Inyeti and the first conception here at the Zoo," Terri said.
"It was very exciting news when we found out she was expecting and there is a great buzz around the zoo now."
The arrival of a baby southern white rhino will be yet another win for the survival of the species. With numbers estimated at just 20,150 in the wild, with a further 780 in captivity, every birth is crucial to ensure the survival of these majestic creatures.
"It is vital that we keep working to save this species, not just here at the zoo but through our work in Africa and putting an end to poaching," Terri said.
"Our new arrival is exciting news for the species and one more step in the right direction for protecting these magnificent creatures."
It will be at least 16 months before a new rhino is born with Inyeti's big bundle of joy expected in April next year.
Australia Zoo Curator Kelsey Mostyn said Inyeti would make a wonderful first-time mum.
"She is very good with Savannah, Caballe's little baby - although she is a little hormonal at the moment," Kelsey said.
"She has all the makings for a great mum when the calf finally arrives; now we just have to wait."
Inyeti's baby rhino is expected to weigh about 60kg when it is born.
Walking Track
Giraffes, rhinos and zebras are now just a hop, skip and a jump away, with a new walking track to Australia Zoo's Africa exhibit opening on Boxing Day.
The new 700m track means our guests have the option to experience the African savannah at their leisure, which will be great for families visiting over the school holidays.
Regular local visitors in particular can also make the most of the new access to the exhibit, which offers different views and corners of the zoo to explore.
Following the 24 acre exhibit's official opening in September the track will link guests from the Tiger Temple in South East Asia to the African savannah.
Safari shuttles to and from the exhibit will continue over the busy holiday period, but the new walking track will provide visitors to the zoo greater flexibility in organising their day.
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As Wild as Life gets!
Crikey! It's as wild as life gets at Australia Zoo's new open-range exhibit - Africa! Open NOW you can see the only multi species exhibit in Queensland.
Step on board the FREE* Africa Safari Shuttle and experience the only Giraffe and Zebra in Queensland and keep your eyes peeled for our brand new baby Rhino!
Steve's dream was to build an African Safari Park, where animals roam free in open plains and state of the art walk-through enclosures; where the public can watch these animals interact as they would in the wild; and where people can have their own unique experiences with these wonderful animals.
You can see one of our three Giraffe: Rosie, Penny or Forrest as they graze the Savannah and use their amazing blue tongues pull leaves from the trees. Be mesmerised as they gracefully explore Africa right in front of your eyes!
Taking visitors on a journey to the African Savannah of Australia Zoo, we will showcase the only active breeding group of Rhinos in Queensland - our first calf was born here in April - in a replica of the exotic animals' natural habitat. You can see the only Rhino calf in Queensland, our little Savannah, run, jump and play with some of our six other adult Southern White Rhinos right in front of your eyes - which is all part of the African experience.
Africa will showcase Queensland Bottle Tree which these trees reflect the native Boabab tree in Africa. Standing, 18 metres tall and believed to be between 80 and 100 years old, and will feature in the new Africa exhibit at Australia Zoo.
Africa is right here in your own back yard. So come on - go WILD with us!
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