Mugga Lane Zoo

Mugga Lane Zoo
04-03-2008

found a flyer for the zoo when it was open, it said they had bushbabies??? can anyone confirm this? what other wow species did they display and where did they all go???

05-03-2008

Maybe they are sing the Name Bush Babies as a collective noun for Possums, Gliders and things like that

05-03-2008

years ago i downloaded a list of DEH approved species for import (no doubt many of you also downloaded this now defunct list).

i remember sengal galagos, were definitely listed and virtually all other oddities i saw on that particular document, have since been mentioned on this forum as something they remember seeing as one zoo or another way back when.

thus, i would consider it likely that someone did import bushbabies at some stage, and its possible that they may have ended up at that particular zoo.

06-03-2008

before the Pearl Coast Zoo in Broome closed it even had tarsiers. TARSIERS!
i dont know if any one ever went there, and im sure it would have had pretty crappy enclosures but the range of species was phenomenal

07-03-2008

sounds like it - isn't this where melbourne/werribee got its male congo buffalo from?

what else did they have - tell me glyn, tell me!

08-03-2008

I can never find any information about it and every website has an identical write up about it.

09-03-2008

I know alot of the animals at tipperary were purchased from a zoo in broome, so this may be the place, if that's any help Patrick.

09-03-2008

From what I can recall the collection was basically parrots and ungulates. No big cats or anything like that.(I know that they had Gemsbok).

When they folded, the surviving ungulates were bought by Warren Anderson,Tipperary, and the parrots came east to some place aound Coffs Harbour, NSW.

06-05-2008

Mugga Lane
Not sure what Mugga Lane had in the past, but I went there in early 2000 (very much closed and run-down) to pick up 2 servals. The only other things I saw/heard about were an old male Barbary sheep and some assorted raptors.

Pearl Coast
Never went there but heard plenty of good stories. Kept virtually every species of parrot native to Australia (night and ground parrots being exceptions) and an impressive range of macaws. Excellant breeding facilities apparently. Also kept a nice range of ungulates incl. pygmy hippos, grevy's zebras, gemsbok, sitatunga and lechwe(?). They did import cheetahs (3?) but if I remember rightly they were tainted with the 'original' mad-cow scare, and so euthanased. All the hoofstock went to Tipperary station, and some subsequently to Mareeba. Anderson wasn't interested in the parrots, and I thought they had been dispersed around the country to various breeders.

Obscure prosimians
Adelaide kept Senegal bushbabies and Slender loris (during the late '70s). Perth kept a couple of Greater bush babies (late '80s into early '90s, may of even bred them). Slow loris have turned up ad hoc, probably through confiscations, at Perth and Melbourne (at least). Unfortunately the ARAZPA zoos have never sorted out what species to go for and kept to the plan! A constant source of frustration with them for me.