This is a list of species held on show at Perth Zoo on the 6th of July 2016. I will be uploading pictures to the Perth Zoo Gallery and also posting a review of the zoo in my trip thread: http://www.zoochat.com/24/trip-australia-june-july-2016-a-449389/ Scientific names for any species can be provided on request. Mammals: Black-and-white Ruffed Lemur Red-tailed Phascogale Western Ringtail Possum Fat-tailed Dunnart Brush-tailed Bettong Dibbler Ghost Bat Northern Quoll Long-nosed Potoroo Short-eared Rock-wallaby Common Brushtail Possum Western Quoll Feathertail Glider Australian Water Rat Bilby Bolivian Squirrel Monkey South American Coati Golden Lion Tamarin Meerkat Grant’s Zebra Rothschild’s Giraffe Fennec Fox Spotted Hyaena African Hunting Dog Southern White Rhino African Lion Hamadryas Baboon Goodfellow’s Tree Kangaroo White-cheeked Gibbon Dingo Short-beaked Echidna Red Kangaroo Western Grey Kangaroo Tammar Wallaby Western Brush-wallaby Quokka Numbat Tasmanian Devil Koala Southern Hairy-nosed Wombat Cotton-top Tamarin Pygmy Marmoset Emperor Tamarin Black-capped Capuchin Ring-tailed Lemur Sumatran Orangutan Javan Gibbon Asian Elephant Sun Bear Asian Small-clawed Otter Red Panda Sumatran Tiger Total: 52 species Birds: Boobook Owl Tawny Frogmouth Guinea Fowl Southern Cassowary Bridled Tern Little Blue Penguin Brolga Glossy Ibis Green Pygmy-goose Australasian Shoveller Black Swan Eastern Great Egret Little Pied Cormorant Plumed Whistling Duck Pied Heron Radjah Shelduck Freckled Duck Yellow-billed Spoonbill Black-winged Stilt Black-necked Stork Blue-billed Duck Royal Spoonbill Purple-crowned Lorikeet Splendid Fairy-wren Elegant Parrot Forest Red-tailed Black-cockatoo Galah Rufous Whistler Brush Bronzewing Red-capped Parrot Bush Stone-curlew Emu Channel-billed Cuckoo Eclectus Parrot Golden Pheasant Satin Bowerbird Mandarin Duck Wonga Pigeon Total: 38 species Reptiles: Olive Python Jungle Python Rough-scaled Python Rough-throated Leaf-tailed Gecko Banded Knob-tailed Gecko Stimson’s Python Galapagos Tortoise Madagascar Tree Python Dampier Peninsula Monitor Pygmy Python South-west Carpet Python Radiated Tortoise Bell’s Hingeback Tortoise Corn Snake Tiger Snake Shingleback Skink Western Blue-tongue Skink Western Spiny-tailed Skink Perentie Veiled Chameleon Common Death Adder Dugite Black-headed Python Woma Olive Python Reticulated Python Western Swamp Tortoise Freshwater Crocodile Merten’s Water Monitor Pink-eared Turtle Pig-nosed Turtle Saltwater Crocodile Red-eared Slider Komodo Dragon Total: 34 species Amphibians: Cane Toad Green Tree Frog Splendid Tree Frog White-lipped Tree Frog Total: 4 species Fish: Silver Perch Western Minnow Western Pygmy Perch Barramundi Archerfish Western Rainbowfish Spotted Scat Koi Total: 8 species Invertebrates: Spiny Leaf Insect Australian Tarantula Hairy Marron Total: 3 species Overall Total: 139 species
Thanks once again for posting all of these on-show species lists...it makes for fascinating reading. I'm a bit stunned at the low numbers for Perth Zoo, especially with its bird collection. With zoos like Perth and Adelaide only having fairly small numbers of species in comparison to the mega zoos of North America and Europe one could present the argument that the country of Australia (6th biggest in the world) has only two really large zoos: Taronga and Melbourne. The same argument could be made for Canada (2nd largest nation) with its zoos of Toronto and Calgary.
I was actually quite surprised at how low the total for Perth Zoo was, as I was sure it would come out to over 200 since Caversham Wildlife Park came up to 184 and Perth Zoo is much bigger. I think the reason why Perth's total is much smaller than Caversham is because it doesn't have little enclosures and bird aviaries and things dotted about, and it has more big ABCs like zebras, tigers, lions, elephants, giraffes, and that sort of thing which takes up a lot of space. It is an absolutely excellent zoo though, and much more well done than Caversham in terms of theming, quality of exhibits and general feel. Even so, 200 species isn't so many for one of the biggest zoos in the country and by far WA's main zoo. Though with Australia, and WA in particular, you have to consider the population, and Australia only has about 23 million people and only about 2.5 million in the whole of WA, of which fewer than 2 million are in Perth.
Perth Zoo used to have an extensive bird collection including (for Australia) some real exotic rarities. The area that is now the Amazon exhibit used to be their main bird display.
I don't know if you could really say that any Australian zoos are "really large" in an international sense - Taronga, for example, actually has fewer exotic mammals on display than Adelaide, and I suspect fewer species of birds as well. Melbourne I think would be the closest - but even that falls down because it has fewer native mammals than the others (no nocturnal house). Some of the state-run zoos considered as a whole would probably equal some of the really big zoos overseas (i.e. Taronga + WPZ, Melbourne + Werribee + Healesville, Adelaide + Monarto). I say all the above from reading only - I've not been overseas - but it really does seem like the Really Big Zoos like Bronx and San Diego and London and so forth would absolutely dwarf anything we have here.
Correct no rock wallabies currently at Perth. Their former exhibit is in the Australian Fauna section.
They might be kept behind the scenes.If I'm not mistaken I read about breeding success on their facebook page recently.
they have one Short-eared Rock Wallaby in the nocturnal house, and there should be two Black-flanked (Black-footed) Rock Wallabies in the Discovery Centre which is off-show to the general visitors (it's an education centre for school groups and the like).
was there no owlet-nightjar in the nocturnal house now? I think Australia may well be the only place to see owlet-nightjars in a zoo. Zootierliste doesn't even seem to list any historical records, and I doubt there are any species in American zoos either.
Nope. I was actually looking out for them because I knew they should have been there, so I wouldn't have missed them unless they were unsigned and hiding.
No sun conures, blue and gold macaws and amazons??? Thought they would have been part of the new Amazon display. As MRJ mentioned Perth used to have a pretty extensive bird collection, mostly native. The old bird keepers must have been gutted when they ripped down the aviaries. Was always a nice part of the zoo.
They were still there a year ago. The aviaries had had internal dividing walls removed to make larger enclosures, but were still the same externally as when I was there in 1987, however they now had Tamarins in one of the enclosures instead, and the Macaws were in another. The Amazons were in a smaller enclosure and the Sun Conures were off display in an aviary around the corner. Hix
