My daughter took my grandsons to Seaworld yesterday to see Australia's only polar Bears. She was told that Seaworld now only have 2 males - no...
There seems to be some interest in the fact that a Razor Billed Curassow has disappeared from Taronga and now one has shown up in Melbourne Zoo....
While visiting Vietnam in April I made a point of checking out Saigon Zoo. I had heard conflicting reports of it, ranging from good to abysmal....
As we all know, circuses with performing wild animals are out of favour with local government authorities in this country. Despite continuing to...
There has been a fair bit of discussion of Sumatran tigers on the Australian forum lately, due to the fact that the Irwin family's Australia Zoo...
Isis shows 6 male and 3 female De Brazza's guenons still in the region as follows; a pair each at Melbourne and Taronga; 2 males and a female at...
The world is subject to fads and trends, and the zoo world is not immune to this. I've lived for over six decades (ouch!) and I've seen them...
My new year's resolution is to stop moaning about the exotic species Aussie zoos don't have and start appreciating those that we DO have! Happy...
This is one I hadn't heard about:- Mentioned in the latest RZS publication is a zoo which opened at Tamworth in 1983 after obtaining bears, big...
I would be interested to hear the opinions of people as to the handling of koalas by members of the public at zoos. An invitation to the public...
It's a shame though - it means that the ISIS records are incomplete. When it comes to large exotic pythons and boas, ISIS shows Burmese pythons...
Spent the morning at Taronga today - jeez I love the joint! It's like no other place and no other zoo! I know I knock it from time to time, but...
Hey, N.Z. members, what's the situation like in New Zealand zoos as regards primates. Are there many? Many species? In Australia when I was...
Has anyone read the novel TARONGA, written by Victor Kelleher and set (not surprisingly) in Taronga Zoo, Sydney, in the post-apocalyptic future...
Almost all Asian elephants in Australian zoos (past and present) originated in South-East Asia, rather than India and Sri Lanka, and seem to be...
ISIS shows Werribee as having 7 Greater Kudu (1 buck; 6 does.) Can anyone tell me about them? Are they breeding age or ancient? Have werribee...
On a lighter note; I visited my little grand-daughter's kindergarten open day last week. When I got there she was drawing a picture. "That's...
I'm the kind of guy who doesn't even like seeing collars on dogs, so it really burns me up to see an alpha predator like a leopard or a tiger...
Went to Featherdale again yesterday - this is a great place to see Australian wildlife! Lots of tourists(and tourist buses.) Lots of primary...
It would seem that some of the world's major zoos have been controlled in years past by family "dynasties". Probably the most famous were the...
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