A golden lion tamarin has been born: Meet our golden child - Adelaide Zoo Female white-cheeked gibbon Viet is pregnant and due late this year: Gibbon family to grow! - Adelaide Zoo
Updates from the annual report which was released last week - Visitation rose 7% on the previous year to 432, 698 people. - A pair of Olive pythons were added to the presentation's collection and a confiscated Hermann's tortoise is on display in the children's zoo - A pair of rhincoreos iguana are on display outside of the nocturnal house. - One of the hyacinth macaw's passed away in March.
Article on the renewed pressure for the zoo to stop keeping Australian sea lions (they currently have a pair): Adelaide sea lions swimming in limbo
It really is far too small. Unfortunately, there's not much the zoo can do until a suitable home becomes available. The petition will achieve nothing other than bad publicity for the zoo- you can't just magic up a good home for a pair of sea lions.
The zoo has responded to the sea lion issue: Update on our plans to move our beautiful Australian Sea Lions to a bigger home - Adelaide Zoo As mentioned in another thread, Karta the Sumatran orangutan is pregnant and due in January: Critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan expecting in the new year - Adelaide Zoo
A white-cheeked gibbon has been born: Adelaide Zoo welcomes a critically endangered White-cheeked Gibbon baby!
Adelaide Zoo is the first zoo in the country to introduce 'iBeacon' technology; as stated in the article: "iBeacon technology provides location-specific content to visitors through the use of Bluetooth technology via 65 ‘beacons’ distributed throughout the Adelaide Zoo site": Adelaide Zoo first zoo in Australia to roll out iBeacon technology - Adelaide Zoo
