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Sunshine Coast Daily By KATE CLIFFORD SEEING a 2000kg rhino act "a little hormonal" may sound like scary business. But for the team at Australia Zoo, it is the most exciting news of the year. Inyeti, a six-year-old southern white rhino, is expecting her first calf. It is the first successful conception for the zoo's rhino breeding program and comes just one year after the birth of 600 ...]]> Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:00 CDT 20 April 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By KIERAN CAMPBELL IN a brace stitched and shortened to fit his little furry neck, Stuart the koala needs more than a healthy dose of eucalyptus leaves to keep him alive. The battered marsupial has four large screws inserted in his neck, wire and medical-grade cement helping repair injuries caused from being hit by a car. Stuart owes his life to the Australia Zoo Wi ...]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CDT 16 April 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily THERE is no doubt cuddles from elephants and being playfully splashed by a green sea turtle is the animal kingdom’s way of saying thank-you to Tegan Lather. The 13-year-old has been on the Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital fundraising bandwagon for a couple of years and this year will host a Family Fun Day Car Rally on May 27. The event starts at the Australia Zoo Wil ...]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CDT 15 April 2012

Sunshine Coast Sunday By DAVID POTTS FOXY the cheetah is out for his daily walk with his keepers. Savannah, the one-year-old white rhinoceros, is playing in a mud bath with her mum. Several giraffes are munching on leaves high up a pole. Zebra are cheekily stealing some hay. A shuttle packed with onlookers slows to take in the scene, their guide teaching them some words in Swahili ("Jambo ...]]> Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CDT 14 April 2012

The Courier Mail - Qweekend By MATT FYNES-CLINTON The relentless march of industry and infrastructure, coupled with debilitating disease, could see Queensland’s koalas die out within decades. "Advancing settlement inevitably disturbs the balance of nature to the imminent danger of the less adaptable creatures, and sufficient has been seen of the effect of settlement upon the notoriously u ...]]> Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CDT 08 April 2012

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Sunshine Coast Daily GETTING through Customs can be convoluted for any foreigner, but it is triply complex when you come from Africa and there’s no denying you are a cheetah. After 30 days of quarantine and surveillance, two new cheetahs have passed the "import process" and now can call Australia Zoo home. The 10-month-old males will join three other cheetahs in the Africa section. T ...]]> Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:00 CDT 27 March 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By NICOLE FUGE JACK Sexton’s idea of a zoo was animals locked up behind bars, so when he visited Australia Zoo for his 102nd birthday he was in awe of the animals roaming freely. Jack, from Rochedale, visited the zoo on Sunday with his Sunshine Coast family. His daughter Linda said he was bewildered by the experience. "He hasn’t been to a zoo for many decades. ...]]> Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CDT 25 March 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By TREVOR HOCKINS AUSTRALIA Zoo keepers are monitoring closely the animal park’s six white rhinos after the mysterious deaths of four of the animals in New South Wales. The endangered white rhinoceroses died at Taronga Western Plains Zoo at Dubbo early last week. The zoo is owned by Sydney’s Taronga Park Zoo. Two of Australia Zoo’s rhinos were acquired from ...]]> Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CDT 14 March 2012

Sunshine Coast Daily By TREVOR HOCKINS THREE of the Queensland Reds' best have shaped up to some of the world’s biggest and ugliest rugby union packs, but they freely admitted they were edgy about meeting DJ yesterday. DJ, tipping the scales at 2000kg, weighs almost twice as much as the heaviest Super 15 rugby pack. The southern white rhino, along with four females and baby Savannah, i ...]]> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:00 CDT