Please see below list of animals in the Nocturnal House. Reptiles and invertebrates: Thorny Devil Military Dragon Spinifex Legless Lizard Desert Skink Cane Grass Dragon Central Netted Dragon Panther Skink Golden Orb Spider Pie-dish Beetle Wolf Spider Barking Spider Scorpion Woma Mulga Snake Stimson’s Python Centralian Carpet Python Spiny-tailed Gecko Sand Plain Gecko Rough Knob-tailed Gecko Pygmy Mulga Monitor Desert Death Adder Desert Rainbow Skink Acacia Stick Insect Lined Earless Dragon Toad Hopper Hooded Scaly-foot Blistered Pyrgomorph Bynoe’s Gecko Mammals and birds: Bilby Burrowing bettong Golden bandicoot Mala Tawny Frogmouth Curlew Ghost Bat Greater Stick Nest Rat Red tailed phascogale Spinifex hopping mouse Western Quoll Plains mouse
According to the Park's Facebook page, a 6-year old female arrived from Perth (retired from breeding programme) last March and has gone on display in the Woodlands side of the nocturnal house. I guess this is a re-purposed exhibit, presumably the Mulga Snake one, as that was the largest one on that side (although this species is still on Jakub's list).
A bit late but still significant news. Alice Springs Desert Park has welcomed the successful hatching of two Thorny Devils! Security Check
Around thirty Red-tailed Phascogales bred at the Alice Springs Desert Park have been released into the Newhaven Wildlife Sanctuary. Full story: Native threatened species roams Central Australian bush for the first time in decades
An additional 25 (14.11) Red-tailed Phascogales from Alice Springs Desert Park have been released into Newhaven. A whopping 115 phascogales have been released since 2020. From their Fb page:
A Mala has been born at Alice Springs Desert Park. The joey is on display in the nocturnal house: Log into Facebook | Facebook
A new Numbat has arrived at Alice Springs Desert Park! It’s now on display: Log into Facebook | Facebook
The park's pair of Inland Dotterels have produced a chick. This is a first for Alice Springs Desert Park. Information from social media.
16 critically endangered Central Rock-Rats Zyzomys pedunculatus have been collected from the wild as the founders for a new captive population at the Alice Springs Desert Park. The rats were collected as part of a translocation with most individuals moving to a fenced sanctuary along with the16 that were retained for the park: Central Rock-rat, Australia’s most endangered mammal, airlifted to safe refuge
The Central Rock-Rats have now bred producing eight offspring this year after they were brought into captivity: 登录 Facebook | Facebook
Four Thorny Devils have hatched at Alice Springs Desert Park. They are on-display in the nocturnal house - reported on social media.
Six Brush-tailed Mulgaras have arrived from the Newhaven Sanctuary. They will soon go on display in the nocturnal house: 登录 Facebook | Facebook
Three new exhibits have opened in the nocturnal house - one for the Brush-tailed Mulgaras which are the only known individuals of their species in an Australian zoo currently. The other two are for invertebrates with one for Inland Desert Scorpion and the other for Barking Spider: New exhibits at the Alice Springs Desert Park
