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 over 120 native and exotic species.
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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 |
History
editHalls 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]
Animals
editThe Zoo has a mixture of about 120 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
- Asian small-clawed otter
- Barbary sheep
- Black flying fox
- Black-and-white ruffed lemur
- Black-capped capuchin monkey
- Black-handed spider monkey
- Brush-tailed rock wallaby
- Cheetah
- Common wombat
- Cotton-top tamarin
- Dingo
- Elk
- European fallow deer
- Giraffe
- Golden lion tamarin
- Himalayan tahr
- Meerkat
- Pygmy marmoset
- Quokka
- Red panda
- Red-necked wallaby
- Ring-tailed lemur
- Southern white rhinoceros
- Spotted-tailed quoll
- Swamp wallaby
- Tammar wallaby
- Tasmanian devil
- Western grey kangaroo
- White-tufted marmoset
- Yellow-footed rock wallaby
The zoo also keeps several domestic mammals: alpacas, goats, pigs, ponies, guinea pigs and Texas longhorn cattle.
- Reptiles
- American alligator
- Blotched blue-tongued lizard
- Boa constrictor
- Boyd's forest dragon
- Burmese python
- Central bearded dragon
- Cunningham's spiny-tailed skink
- 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
- Rosenberg's monitor
- Saltwater crocodile
- Shingleback lizard
References
edit- ^ "Halls Gap Zoo". ozanimals.com. OzAnimals Travel. Retrieved 24 February 2011.
- ^ "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.