Ballarat Wildlife Park Ballarat Wildlife Park

I visited Ballarat Wildlife Park on Saturday and found most of it really quite good. I thought a little more enviroment enrichment for the tassie devils could've been helpful, but most captive devils do develop the usual stereotypie of running non stop around the enclosure all day though.

Was impressed with their tassie devil breeding statistics, they seem to be doing well there.

Was not impressed with the state of the alligator "enclosure". Small, dark and dank. Has anyone else seen this? I didn't have time to see the reptile house unfortunately but did hear that they have the only pair of breeding saltwater crocodiles in Australia, so they must be doing something right there.

On their entrance path, they were displaying the large photo posters of crocodiles that Melbourne zoo were displaying in the main drive about six months ago. Does anyone know about that?

 

The only pair of breeding saltwater crocs hey? I'm sure there are quite a few croc farmers who would care to dispute that one!

 

Ha! Definately. I should've said the only zoo in Australia. That's what the zoo pamphlet said anyways.

 

And a zoo or two as well!!!!

 

Our baby croc was bred and parent raised at Taronga. . . haha Ballarat may need to change that.. .

 

Whats the difference between and Parent Raised and Handraised Croc Jarkari?

Do they make Roudybush for crocs

 

Shutup Benjamin

The crocs we usually use are taken from their parents younger and handled before sent to educators. This one was not. It was 2.5 years before coming. Just stating it as ARKS does

 

They might've meant Victoria. I can't think of any others down here.

 

The posters they have in their entrance are photos of the Ballarat wildlife parks crocodilians! The breeding of the crocs refers to the artificial environment they have I think. The alligators seem ok they open up the outside for them and swap them around during breeding times. I patted one of the recently bred baby alis!

 

Their information has always been out dated or grossly miss-interpreted .

 

GDay. unsure of exactly when you visited but as the reptile keeper at balarat would be glad to clear things up, while we certianly do not have the only breeding pair of crocodiles, to our knowledge they are they only breeding pair in victoria, the park was also the second place (behind melbourne zoo) to breed salt water crocodiles in an artificial environment (outside the tropics)
As for the alligators, whilst i can assure you all our gators are in excellent help, i must agree i am looking forward to trying to upgrade their enclosure where possible, however im am sure most zoochat members are aware of the scale of running a zoo, husbandry comes first, aesthetics come second