Halls Gap Zoo
| Halls Gap Zoo | |
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| 37°8′52″S 142°33′49″E / 37.14778°S 142.56361°E | |
| Location | Halls Gap, Victoria, Australia |
| Land area | 52 acres (21 ha)[1] |
| No. of species | 125+ |
| Website | www |
Halls Gap Zoo is a country 53-acre (21 ha) zoo located about 7 kilometres (4.3 mi) from Halls Gap, Victoria, Australia. From the zoo you can see Grampians National Park. It is Victoria's largest regional zoo, holding well over 160 native and exotic species.
History
Halls Gap Zoo was originally opened in the early 1980s as Wallaroo Wildlife Park. The new owners in 1998 opened the gates as the Halls Gap Wildlife Park & Zoo. It was sold to the current owners in December 2007 and is now operating as the Halls Gap Zoo.[2]
The zoo opened a new nocturnal house in 2008, along with a wetlands area for waterfowl.[2]
Animals
The Zoo has a mixture of about 160 native and exotic species. The native animals at the zoo include: koalas, kangaroos, emus, wombats, dingoes and wallabies. Exotic animals at the zoo include: bison, monkeys, deer, giraffes, ostriches and cheetahs. There are also a variety of reptiles (including saltwater crocodiles) and birds at the zoo.[3]
- Birds
- African firefinch
- Australian wood duck
- Black swan
- Black-faced woodswallow
- Black-winged stilt
- Blue peafowl
- Blue-and-gold macaw
- Brolga
- Budgerigar
- Bush stone-curlew
- Canada goose
- Cape Barren goose
- Common ostrich
- Crimson rosella
- Crimson-bellied conure
- Domestic turkey
- Dusky lory
- Eastern barn owl
- Eclectus parrot
- Egyptian goose
- Emu
- Galah
- Green-winged macaw
- Helmeted guineafowl
- Long-billed corella
- Major Mitchell's cockatoo
- Namaqua dove
- Orange-bellied parrot
- Orange-breasted waxbill
- Pacific black duck
- Princess parrot
- Rainbow Lorikeet
- Red junglefowl
- Red bishop weaver
- Red-tailed black cockatoo
- Rose-crowned fruit dove
- Southern boobook
- Southern cassowary
- St Helena waxbill
- Sulphur-crested cockatoo
- Sun conure
- Superb parrot
- Tawny frogmouth
- Turquoise-fronted amazon
- Wedge-tailed eagle
- White-browed woodswallow
- White-tailed black cockatoo
- Yellow-tailed black cockatoo
- Mammals
- American bison
- Barbary sheep
- Black flying fox
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Black-capped capuchin monkey
- Black-handed spider monkey
- Brush-tailed rock wallaby
- Cheetah
- Common brushtail possum
- Common wombat
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Dingo
- Elk
- European fallow deer
- Fat-tailed dunnart
- Feathertail glider
- Fennec fox
- Giraffe
- Golden lion tamarin
- Greater bilby
- Himalayan tahr
- Indian hog deer
- Koala
- Meerkat
- Plains rat
- Pygmy marmoset
- Quokka
- Red panda
- Red-necked wallaby
- Red-tailed phascogale
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Serval
- Short-beaked echidna
- Southern brown bandicoot
- Spinifex hopping mouse
- Southern white rhinoceros
- Spotted-tailed quoll
- Sugar glider
- Swamp wallaby
- Tammar wallaby
- Tasmanian devil
- Western grey kangaroo
- White-tufted marmoset
- Woylie
- Yellow-footed rock wallaby
The zoo also keeps several domestic mammals: Alpacas, goats, pigs, ponies, sheep, guinea pigs and Texas longhorn cattle.
- Reptiles
- American alligator
- Banded rock python
- Black-headed python
- Blotched blue-tongued lizard
- Boa constrictor
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Burmese python
- Central bearded dragon
- Central netted dragon
- Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink
- Diamond python
- Eastern blue-tongued lizard
- Eastern water dragon
- Gila monster
- Green iguana
- Indian star tortoise
- Lace monitor
- Merten's water monitor
- Northern blue-tongued lizard
- Perentie
- Pig-nosed turtle
- Ridge-tailed monitor
- Rosenberg's monitor
- Saltwater crocodile
- Shingleback lizard
- Tiger snake
- Veiled chameleon
References
- ^ "Halls Gap Zoo". ozanimals.com. OzAnimals Travel. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ a b "Halls Gap Zoo". hallsgapzoo.com.au. Halls Gap Zoo. Archived from the original on 1 March 2011. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "Our Animals". hallsgapzoo.com.au. Halls Gap Zoo. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
