On-show species list from my visit on the 26.07.17 Mammals: Red-legged Pademelon Bridled Nailtail-wallaby Proserpine Rock-wallaby Dingo Common Wallaroo Agile Wallaby Eastern Grey Kangaroo Swamp Wallaby Koala Fat-tailed Dunnart Long-nosed Potoroo Greater Glider Squirrel Glider Black-footed Tree Rat Greater Bilby Spinifex Hopping Mouse Platypus Creatures of the Night Show: Short-eared Brushtail Possum Common Ringtail Possum Squirrel Glider Greater Bilby Birds: Emu Bush Stone-curlew Southern Cassowary Black Swan Plumed Whistling Duck Brolga Australian White Ibis Dusky Moorhen Magpie Goose Rufous Night-heron Australasian Darter Little Black Cormorant Australian Pelican Great Egret Creatures of the Night Show: Australian Barn Owl Fleay's in Flight: Barking Owl Australian Pelican Great Egret Rufous Night-heron Brolga White-bellied Sea Eagle Reptiles: Lace Monitor Freshwater Crocodile Estuarine Crocodile Olive Python Coastal Carpet Python Murray-Darling Carpet Python Southern Angle-headed Dragon Brisbane River Turtle Amphibians: Common Green Tree Frog
No Lumholtz's tree kangaroos? What a shame! You should have asked them about these ... (coming from afar I am sure they would have done something about it, especially as a staffer ....)
I was told that they are supposed to be back on show beginning of August. And I did get to see them thanks to a nice keeper (Also saw a Tawny Frogmouth off-show.)
The Lumhotzl has been dead for years now. When are the new ones going on display? How many are there? Also some of the animals listed are wild so their is no guarantee on seeing them.
Shouldn't be too long (s.a.) I saw three. The second paragraph in the bird section is the only one that may contain wild birds. But since you can't tell by the signs what is kept and what is wild I just listed what I did see that is also on one of the signs.
they are three females. I like it when zoos put up signage for the wild birds which can be seen on the grounds. For what it's worth, the species from that paragraph which are part of the captive stock are Black Swan, Brolga, Australasian Darter, and Australian Pelican. All the rest seem to be solely wild species there.
Correct, I did a little surf searching lately - there is a separate tree kangaroo Australia thread somewhere - and found its stock is now 3.0 only. It is very likely this may soon change - and hopefully so - that they might once more be a breeding / holding institution.
The red-legged pademelons are also the wild, and are attracted into the ground by the keepers leaving food out under the big fig tree near the Cassowaries.
