featherdale » Featherdale Wildlife Park

07-05-2008

@Pat--Tiger quolls can be deceiving--even when they look "tubby" they can move live the wind. Take your eyes off them for even a second and they can cover a lot of ground very quickly! Females also look quite large during the mating season--they tend to develop an area on the back of the neck and extending out from that that looks like "double chins". It gives the male something to hang onto during breeding so that the female is not badly injured.

08-05-2008

I did get to see their agility because one of them was climbing all over the place and annoying the other one when all the other one wanted to do was sleep.

08-05-2008

Featherdale got off to a "flying start" when they originated the "Have Your Photo Taken With A Koala" money-making idea. Nowadays almost everywhere does it but Featherdale originated the idea many years ago and consequently made millions of dollars out of the hey-day of Japanese tourism.

That's when the place went from a dusty ex-poultry farm with rows of narrow single-pair aviaries and such species as Red Deer and Rhesus monkeys to a specialist Australian animal collection with lush planting and large walk-through aviaries.

Featherdale
09-05-2008

The last time I was there , I was excited to see that they had a" free range " perentie ! Unfortunately , the staff were not aware of this arrangement until I asked them about it , and they suddenly realised that the thing had escaped from its enclosure . ..... that was my highlight of that visit !