It was not only great to see the Australian animals, birds and reptiles but to see the wonderful work Zoos Victoria is doing to help fight the extinction of some of our native fauna and that they are promoting and educating visitors about what we can do to help preserve and care for the environment so we don't lose our unique flora and fauna.
We met a lot of the keepers as we visited the enclosures - they were very informative and only too happy to answer any questions.
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| Lots of magic moments for us today ................... |
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| What a character this male emu is - it is nesting time for them and this very efficient dad is sitting on a speaker - he thinks it is an egg!! |
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| Too sleepy to come out! |
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| Meet Lucifer!!! We were lucky - Lucifer was nowhere to be seen this morning - too busy sleeping. We revisited his enclosure during the afternoon and were treated to Lucifer doing a quick run and explore around his enclosure before returning to his bed for another nap. |
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| The Bilby! |
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| Great presentation! |
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| The cheeky Sulphur Crested Cockatoo |
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| The rare Red Tailed Cockatoo |
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| The Barking Owl For some reason you got the feeling he was looking at YOU! |
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| These colourful rainforest Electra parrots are a pair - the male is red, the female green |
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| The Black Breasted Buzzard Impressive looking chap! |
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| Of course the clever Galah helped promote environmental awareness - he flew in and undid the ties on the sign "Wipe for Wildlife" - use recycled toilet paper to save the birds and animals habitats - the TREES |
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| The Falcon What a hunter - had the snake before you could blink! |
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| The clever Corella - talked and performed - very extraverted! lol |
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| The Wedged Tail Eagle! Formidable to say the least! |
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| The endangered Leadbeater Possum They nickname them "the Forest Fairies" |
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| Frilled Necked Lizard |
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| A Shingleback Lizard. They have live babies - no eggs. |
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| The bubs! |
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| The Lace Monitor Also known as a Goanna |
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| The lace Monitor enjoying a sleep - probably exhausted from digging her young out of the termites nest! |
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| A Carpet Python |
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| A Diamond Python |
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| Would you believe........... these strange little spiky fellows have great personalities! They love a cuddle and a scratch and they followed the keepers around like puppies wanting to play. Quite intelligent! |
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| We visited the Koala's during the morning but they were very sleepy. We went back about 4pm at their feeding time - was great to see them awake,alert and active!! |
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| Yummy!!!! |
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| Prickles and Dora Saved from French Island and are happily settling in at the Sanctuary. Prickles is starting to love her cuddles but Dora is very stand-offish and a bit cranky |
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| Mum - she has a 2 month old bub in her pouch |
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| Dad - enjoying his Cider Gum leaves - they all went for these first! |
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| This is the oldest female in the sanctuary - she is 11yrs old - they do go grey!!! The lifespan of a koala is about 13 years. |
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| Waking up for a feed! |
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| The keepers feed and cuddle their charges Dora quickly climbed down the tree for a cuddle. The echidna wants his cuddle to! |
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| Only a bit over 12 months old - very cute! |
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| The Alpine Dingo The Sanctuary has 3 pairs |
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| Caught me!!! |
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| The keeper had lots of interesting facts to tell us about our misunderstood dingo |
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| The two playful Platypus babes! They loved their toys in their pond to push, bat and dunk! Hilarious! |
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| The red headed male Gang Gang |
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| The male Bowerbird Hard to get a pic! On the move all the time! Kept swooping us - think their might have been a nest somewhere or did he want my earrings!!!???? |
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| The female Bowerbird |
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| Beautiful! How soft does he look! - keeps him really quiet!!!! |
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| A real stunner! |
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| A joey Red - Necked Wallaby - liked to be patted So soft!! |
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| Swamp Wallaby |
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| The big fellas - the Kangaroos The big boss is in the background |
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| Oh! A little kiss for her!!! |
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| He had his laugh on today!!!! |
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| So pretty but endangered |
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| An important gum for our Koalas! Click to enlarge |
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| Love the promoting of the recycled toilet paper! LET'S ALL "WIPE FOR WILDLIFE"! |
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